You sound like the same fellow who said cash is not used in US buses.

What makes you think electronic crime is better than physical crime? So your argument is that the gov't will be saving my 20 bob cash for using Equity banks beba pay?

smh

I will say it again. The gov't has no business in the business of matatus. Their work is to license and come up with road safety laws. Then IMPLEMENT the laws.

Not deciding the cash someone should carry in a matatu and what mode of dispensing this money is used. Next they will tell me never to wear jeans in a matatu since its too tight.

1 st of July 2014 is less than 33 days away. Wacha tuone! We shall revist this then!

Bangi imelala kwa mtungi ya petrol acha.

Debit/credit cards have been around for ages, have "jamaas" imported them?

The system works and once its fine tuned, it will be very beneficial to the passengers.

Cash must be allowed but through a machine, just like a vending machine without the choice of what to pay.

All public buses/mats within the city have minimum fare set. What currently have is BOARDING point-of-sale, what we are lacking is the EXIT POS.

This is how the system works;
When boarding, you tap/swipe, being charged the minimum allowed fare let say 20 bob for our case. If you exit before you reach the destination where 20bob would have taken you, when alighting you swipe/tap and only 20bob is charged from your card.

If you destination is further than where 20bob in our case would have taken you, there is a surcharge and you get charged when alighting.

The benefit comes in when connecting routes/mats. If you board the next mat within the stipulated connection time, say 10 mins, on the second route/mat, you pay a percentage of the usual stipulated fare. On the third route/mat, the pay is virtually zero. The thinking is, the third route will be the first route in reverse.

For it to work smoothly, the issuers of those cards need to not more than two, and strictly monitored by local authorities for fairness. The bus/mat companies must not be many for ease of accountability and transparency.

The system works smoothly elsewhere.

The thing is , waafrika, , , , , , , , , , , , "will the unyeuthi in us allow it?"

someone enlighten me on how this would stop corruption. the reason why the police are bribed is to stop the matatu drivers and owners (we currently see the latter giving more bribe money if the vehicle is impounded). cashless sytem for passengers would not remove this reason. so all the matatu owners would have to do is give the drivers money for bribes to cover anything from worn out tires - overlapping- to dinded fiekos.

Sasa, wathi wa squadi wata ji sort ki-vipi?

Too much regulation and consolidation of this line of business into the hands of a few.

aii my friend. I can assure you, I am more digital than you will ever be. And mine is not an empty laptop campaign promise. I was digital before you knew the meaning of the word. Hata ukiskia sina simu, nilipitia hiyo stage a long long time ago. Ati resistant to change. Ha!

I'm resistant to gov't control of things that are none of their business. Wenye magari have every right to change how they do business.

The gov't on the other hand has things like finding out who is sending leaflets in Tinderet it should be doing, or just finding terrorists. If they wish to, they can search for dinded fiekos. Not making laws on how or what mode of payment a human being should be using.

I do hope in your search for the digital life you never forgot English comprehension and understand what I'm saying.

Give nyeuthis some credit if they use their brains to think, unless you believe nyeuthis cannot and should not think, theirs is to accept and adopt. Only.

That is the point, it is not expected to run with everyone having a matatu on the road and that would mean either:
(a) 'retrenchment' of the 'small holder' matatus or
(b) conglomeration / cartels / monopolies

Point (b) will be the most viable option and that will leave the individual commuter at a most disadvantaged position in so far as his bargaining power goes.

By the way, what is the primary problem is this that this new system is expected to solve? It is not a rhetorical question. Is it too much liquidity on the roads? Is there anything fundamentally wrong with cash on the roads?

Bribery is a second tier problem tertiary to this point. What will be the solution to bribery?

you have excellent ideas, and I am in full support of the same, from the;
automating of the doors, getting rid of makangas, installing cctv connected to the head office, buying bigger busses with 2 doors, presetting fares, installing pos at the matatu door, change dispensing machines, breaking up a thao into coins, using the 300 bob paid to makanga to buy and maintain the ICT Hardware, and last but not least all of us supporting the grand ideas.

The govts biggest interest is revenue collection, lazima ushuru ilipwe thats why cash elimination is key. Another thing its becoming very expensive to print and kuthondeka those coins you call money thats why almost all govts are looking at minimizing the use of cash/coins.

So start looking at it from that angle, owners want to get the maximum returns from their investments, and the GOK wants to collect as much revenue as they can. Wewe kama abiria hauna say, you get that gadget or you walk/drive yourself to wherever.