Boda Boda, King of The Road
Here
is a thrill that some of our Jovago.com users recommended, it is no ordinary
thrill that you will find in the mountains or in the lakes of Uganda. You will
find this on the streets of Kampala everyday as you
go buy your work.
They
will wheeze past you in traffic like bumblebees, weaving through traffic with
skills that have been mastered over the years of being in the same profession.
They
always seem too busy or too fast to get to the next destination and sometimes
stop by you to ask if you are headed in their direction, they are the boda
bodas that have filled the streets of Kampala.
Boda
bodas came into prominence in the early 90s in Kampala when the city’s
population was growing; they are basically regular street motorbikes that are
used as a form of commercial transportation next to the taxis or matatus.
Although
in the beginning most people shied away from them because of the danger of
riding a motorbike, the boda boda transportation business has grown all over
the country with almost every region having several of them in the towns.
They
were not organized either, you could find several of them with no specific
stage or stop where people could get their services. Most of them were always
driving the roads looking for clients to take up or ferrying goods through the
city with no specific location.
Boda
bodas have grown since then, you can find them on several streets in Kampala or
even out of town with designated stages and some under organizations like Safe
boda that provide helmets and other safety for the riders and their clients.
They are provided with receipts so that you get to know how much a certain distance
travelled and a hotline to access a specified rider wherever you are in the
city.
They
are best way to get through town through hefty Kampala traffic especially when
you are late for an appointment, they will get you across town in meetings;
their prices within town range from 1000 UGX to 4000 UGX , out of town will
cost you above 5000 UGX depending on the distance travelled and your bargaining
power.
With
boda bodas, you always have to use the ones that have stages especially at
night just for safety purposes and when you are going a little far from the
towns due to the fact that occasionally there are thugs that masquerade as boda
boda riders and use such opportunities to rob people. Its best to always use
the ones at the stages since they know each other and are usually registered to
that stage, with a chairman and allocated numbers, when something goes wrong
you can come back to that very stage and lodge a complaint. Tour the city and access every part of it
with the boda bodas, you will never miss a moment with them.
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