New Enterprise Swallows Walia Intercity Bus to Transport Civil Servants

The Public Service Employees Transport Service Enterprise (PSETSE), which was established in November 2013 with a total capital of one billion Birr, is to be merged with Walia Intercity Bus Services Enterprise to commence providing transportation services for government employees in less than three months period.

The Enterprise has also received its first sample bus from the Metal Engineering Corporation (MetEC) for inspection at the Federal Transport Authority (FTA). It has ordered around 400 buses from MetEC, all of which are expected to be delivered by October 2014, according to Dejene Debebe, senior public relations officer at Ministry of Transport (MoTr). The service will begin in September with these buses, the existing buses under Walia, as well as other buses in various government offices already offering transport service to employees.

The Enterprise, which is set to commence providing a transportation service to public service employees during office opening and closing hours free of charge and to other users during the rest of the day with fee, is established as a profit making public enterprise.

As one of the promises announced by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on celebration of the civil service day, the Enterprise will manage the free provision of transportation to and from office for members of the public service without payment.

Upon commencing its services, the Enterprise will deploy its fleets along 26 main routes, according to a study prepared by Ministry of Civil Service (MoCS). These lines, named A to Z in the English alphabet, will have various sub-routes and waiting stations based on the number of civil servants residing along the route.

The route identified as route “A” for instance, from the Summit Condominium site to the Addis Abeba Stadium, covers around 3,000 public servants residing through the route, according to the study. There are 13 waiting areas along these lines where people can board and drop.

The buses will be deployed across the city through the 26 lines with a total of 446 waiting stations, according to the study. These lines begin from the peripheral areas of the city such as Summit Condominium, Kotebe, Karaqore, Asko, Hanna Mariam, Shiro Meda, Bulbula, Lafto, Kolfe, Galan Condominium and similar areas and run to another end or major central areas of the city including Stadium, Sidist Kilo, Piazza, Megenagna, Legahar and Kaliti.

There are about 15 points of departure and seven destinations identified as the basic locations of the routes. In some cases, there might be more than one destination from similar departures, according to the plan.


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