{"id":646,"date":"2017-11-09T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T08:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-07-16T19:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:16:14","slug":"tn10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s 11pm. Bar 30 minutes I spent at a customer\u2019s factory in Seeta, a short 13km from my office (google gives 31 minutes\u2019 driving time), I\u2019ve been in the traffic for the last 6 hours. That\u2019s a whooping 4.5 hours of personal productivity gone to waste!<\/p>\n

For my precious time, I\u2019ve been a witness to many evils this evening: A \u201cboda\u201d disappear under a 6×4 truck, matatus (\u201ctaxi\u201d in Uganda) driving on the sidewalks, pedestrians jaywalking, and policemen soliciting bribes. Apart from the obvious risk – the loss of life and limb, the economic cost is punitive: Traffic jams cost the Ugandan economy USD 800 Million annually; over 2.8 Trillion Shillings.<\/p>\n

What would UGX 2.8 Trillion do?<\/p>\n

Quantified, it is the equivalent to the combined budgets for the ministries of Health (1.2 Trillion), Agriculture (863Bn) and ICT (300Bn) plus a well equipped secondary school, complete with laboratories at UGX 600M and possibly a primary school at UGX 400M.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, one could construct 4,660 well-equipped secondary schools.<\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t these figures reason enough for the government to think quick, and act even faster?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s 11pm. Bar 30 minutes I spent at a customer\u2019s factory in Seeta, a short 13km from my office (google gives 31 minutes\u2019 driving time), I\u2019ve been in the traffic for the last 6 hours. That\u2019s a whooping 4.5 hours… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}