Forcing matatus to implement a cashless system may not be such a good idea.
What happens when the system is down or has delays? You break the law by paying in cash?
How many cards will I need for seamless use of matatus, what if there are 5 different cashless systems?
The cashless system may also mean the end of KSh. 10 fares. There are many low income people who wait hours for fares to reach such levels (even though you'll question the wisdom of waiting hours for a small fare change)
The cost of all this will be passed on to consumers in fare hikes, which will esp impact low income earners.
I feel we have regulated the matatu industry too much. The government should have opted for incentives for better ran matatus and disincentives for the rest.
We should also work on a rail system as an alternative, which might spur behaviour change in matatus.
Our love for regulation (I see Kenyans demanding to have fares, oil prices, sugar prices, salaries, TV, news and everything else to be regulated) might see us ending up with unintended consequences.
Regulated rent prices out houses from the poor, while Obama Care has unintentionally resulted in cancer patients losing insurance. If we enforced minimum wage in Kenya, thousands will lose their jobs.
While regulation is often well intended, the negative consequences are often unseen and far reaching.
How is a speed governor not technology ?On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
Waithaka, you would be jobless if you were not solving digital problems :-)
To follow up on Dr. Ndemo's timely observation, a new law has been put
in place and will take effect by June where
1. All PSVs must implement cashless paymeny system for bus fare
2. All PSVs to be fit with fleet management systems where overspeeding
will be checked from system logs, not on speed cameras
3. All PSVs to have surveillance cameras to reduce carjackings and petty crimes.
This will see Beba Pay and Mpesa fight for supremacy. I'm keen to see
what card Safaricom has on it's deck. This is a great opportunity for
payment system innovators to comeup with exciting products, and also
for fleet management system companies to have regular work. The
commuter on the other hand will dig dipper in his pockets to pay for
the services.
And finally, the government has a way of collecting taxes on the Ksh
250Billion industry
http://mobile.nation.co.ke/business/New-law-on-technology-to-transform-PSV-sector/-/1950106/2134508/-/format/xhtml/-/5hut8qz/-/index.html
This development deserves a new thread, which I'm starting.
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