Since the early 1990s, urban transport systems in Nigerian cities have experienced radical change with the use of motorcycles becoming commercially led business and passenger public transportation system in the cities. The implications of the emergence of this mode of transport system for public transportation have not been addressed as the governments have been shying away from articulating needed policy to guide the use of the mode by the operators in particular. The continuous rise in fatality of passengers using motorcycle transport mode, environmental concern and quality of service provision by the operators are part of the issues that remained un-addressed by the policy makers. This paper addresses growing concern for lack of public policy for transport services in the cities and advocates for a strong partnership between the state and the operators through urban public transport policy in general and for motorcycle passenger operators in particular. For the covering abstract see ITRD E116619.
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