{"id":4639,"date":"2021-02-09T19:34:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:10:16","slug":"gli-manchester-the-success-of-dakars-brt-system-depends-on-the-inclusion-of-informal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/?p=4639","title":{"rendered":"GLI Manchester: The success of Dakar\u2019s BRT system depends on the inclusion of informal workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"699\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image.png 699w, https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-282x163.png 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Source: ITF<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBRT\u2019s success depends not only on sound design and engineering, but also on the long-term and inclusive business models that address the underlying problems of the informal transport political economy\u201d writes&nbsp;<em>Professor Papa Sakho<\/em>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<em>Laboratory of Human Geography, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound economic and health impact on the lives of millions of informal transport workers. But as the recently published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gli-manchester.net\/features\/dakar-bus-rapid-transit-labour-impact-assessment-research-report\/\">report by the Cheikh Anta Diop University and Global Labour Institute<\/a>&nbsp;shows, Dakar\u2019s informal transport workers were already vulnerable before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itfglobal.org\/en\/news\/success-dakars-brt-system-depends-inclusion-informal-workers\">article published on the&nbsp;ITF website,&nbsp;<\/a>Professor Sakho highlights how BRT \u2013 by formalising parts of the informal transport economy \u2013 could build a stronger future transport system and reduce social inequalities. But to be truly effective, it requires the inclusion of informal workers. Read the full article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itfglobal.org\/en\/news\/success-dakars-brt-system-depends-inclusion-informal-workers\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBRT\u2019s success depends not only on sound design and engineering, but also on the long-term and inclusive business models that address the underlying problems of the informal transport political economy\u201d writes&nbsp;Professor Papa Sakho&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Laboratory of Human Geography, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar.&nbsp; The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound economic and health impact on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/?p=4639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GLI Manchester: The success of Dakar\u2019s BRT system depends on the inclusion of informal workers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,9,12],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gli-network.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}