New transportation project aims to get the West Bank moving
The West Bank is preparing to carry out the ORIO project that aims to develop a fleet of public buses, which will be a quantum leap in Palestine’s public transportation system.
Yousef Darawbsheh, the vice general traffic observer at the Palestinian Ministry of Transportation, recalls how depressed he was after reviewing the 2011 World Bank report on the problems of transportation in the West Bank. The 2011 report titled “Making Transport Work for Women and Men: Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa” included case studies from Yemen, Morocco and the West Bank.
The West Bank case study reflected the negative economic growth by stating that “checkpoints and economic impacts of occupation disempower men as well as women.”
