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Tuck in a rut: Can Nairobi's public transport rise to Berlin's efficiency?

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Public transport buses in Berlin. [Peter Theuri, Standard]

On August 3, I was scheduled to go watch the Bundesliga 2 opener between Hertha Berlin and Paderborn at The Olympic Stadium.

The Stadium - famously known as OlympiaStadion- is about 20 kilometres from where I am staying, in Ostkreuz, East of Berlin. That I would be going through a city, and knowing how congested Kenya's capital Nairobi is, especially if thousands of people are heading the same way for a league opener, means it should have taken me some hours to get there.

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