Marrakech | Students' suffering with "transport" cards - Al Ousboue Assahafi

A single office tests the dignity of users in the digital age
Aziz El Fatimi – Marrakech
At a time when official authorities are singing the praises of digitalization and the simplification of procedures, hundreds of university students living outside the urban area of Marrakech find themselves forced to spend an entire day in long queues just to obtain a monthly subscription card for urban transport buses. After 26 years of exclusive management by the Spanish company "Alsa," which had managed the sector in Marrakech since 1999, the inter-municipal grouping "Transport Marrakech" ended the delegated management procedure by awarding the contract to a 100% Moroccan consortium including the National Railways Office (ONCF) and its subsidiary "Supratours," through the creation of a new company: the "Marrakech Urban and Peri-urban Transport Management Company." This transition was supposed to…