Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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obiero wrote:hardwood wrote:FRM2011 wrote:obiero wrote:hardwood wrote:2012 wrote:We had an opportunity to bann matatus some years back but we never took it. Now, another even better opportunity has presented itself and with an outgoing president who has nothing to lose politically. Get rid of this fake entrepreneurship. Do you ban all pubs just because one pub decided to play loud music at 3an? Nope. You deal with that one offending pub. Thus if 3 matatus out of 200000 misbehaved they should be delt with individually. Who authorized grafitti to reappear back on the matatus? We all know that Michuki had taken out the edge in childish competition between the matatus based on street cred.. But the two men have brought this on us. I miss Kibaki Boss, I thought we agreed on this forum that it is grossly unfair to compare kibaki to jubilee. Like our people say,"you do not compare sleep to death." Econ 101. A matatu is a business and you can't force competing businesses to use uniform branding or no branding at all. All businesses use their unique branding to connect with their customers. Ever heard of market segmentation or market positioning? Or should govt also force KQ, Fly540 and airkenya to all be painted white with a yellow stripe and not to offer any inflight entertainment to stop "childish" competition? Have you been to Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia? Its possible to have a uniform color scheme for public transport.. Let us not argue for the sake of it. In the USA they have the yellow cab, while in UK its the black cabs and red buses.. Globally it has been done, so why not our matatus? Of what benefit to Kenyan society is it to have a matatu named Savage or Killa with half naked ladies printed on its sides and deafening music on the inside.. Muchuki had a clear mind it's a whole enterprise on it's own... same to the fashion industry. I think Cabs in the US and UK have strict color codes (similar to the reason our school buses have to be yellow) for identification. since kawaida cars and taxis have the same make and model it makes sense to have them have one color so that people know which one to stop. it doesn't make sense with matatus - who here cannot identify a matatu from others? For each country you name as having strict color codes - I can point to another that has the opposite Indian buses  Pakistani buses  Filipino Jeepneys  London Buses have started  All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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