{"id":7842,"date":"2024-09-24T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2024-09-24T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T09:36:28","slug":"kiryandongo-travelers-incur-extra-costs-after-total-closure-of-karuma-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/09\/24\/kiryandongo-travelers-incur-extra-costs-after-total-closure-of-karuma-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiryandongo Travelers Incur Extra Costs after Total Closure of Karuma Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Flavia Ajok<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Travelers from Kiryandongo district are decrying the high transport costs and inconveniences\u00a0due to\u00a0the total closure of Karuma Bridge, which is the gateway to the\u00a0Northern and\u00a0West Nile parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Ministry of Works and Transport announced a total closure of Karuma Bridge starting\u00a0yesterday\u00a0Monday, September 24, 2024, to pave way for\u00a0major repair works.<\/p>\n<p>Brenda Anirwoth, a resident of Kigumba Town\u00a0that our reporter\u00a0found at Kisanja-Para Junction in Masindi, said initially they would pay Shs35,000 for transport fares to West Nile, but now they pay an extra fee of Shs10,000 for transport from Kigumba to Masindi, then board a bus to West Nile.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Musinguzi, an overseer at Kisanja-Paraa Junction, stresses that though the buses were diverted to transit through Murchison Falls National Park, travelers have nowhere to sit while waiting for business or taxis.<\/p>\n<p>He said that though they are getting money from travelers, they are still facing a challenge of shelter and places of convenience, stressing that travelers have nowhere to ease themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Andama, a tout \u00a0at the same junction, decries that the number of passengers has reduced compared to when they were transiting through Kampala-Gulu Highway\u00a0using Karuma bridge.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said that they are getting new customers, though the number is still small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok Travelers from Kiryandongo district are decrying the high transport costs and inconveniences\u00a0due to\u00a0the total closure of Karuma Bridge, which is the gateway to the\u00a0Northern and\u00a0West Nile parts of the country. Last week, the Ministry of Works and Transport announced a total closure of Karuma Bridge starting\u00a0yesterday\u00a0Monday, September 24, 2024, to pave way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}