PROJECT · TRANSPORT PLANNING

Kaduna Bus Rapid Transit

Junction concept design for the Kawo–Maraban Rido corridor — nineteen junctions redesigned around a centre-running median busway.

CLIENT

Kaduna State Transport Regulatory Authority

LOCATION

Kawo – Maraban Rido, Kaduna State

SCALE

24 km segregated corridor, 30 stations

STATUS

Stage 1 concept design, 2026

Junctions surveyed and redesigned

42,066

Vehicles a day at Katsina, the busiest junction

160,000

Passengers a day when the corridor opens

A bus lane is only as fast as the junctions it crosses.

Kaduna’s first bus rapid transit system runs 24 kilometres from Kawo in the north to Maraban Rido in the south, along Ali Akilu Road, Ahmadu Bello Way and Kachia Road, with 30 stations, a fleet of 120 articulated 18-metre buses and a design ridership of 160,000 passengers a day. It is financed by a €110 million facility from the French Development Agency and delivered by the Kaduna State Transport Regulatory Authority.

The buses run in the median, in their own carriageway, calling at far-side stations with a platform on each side. That one decision reaches every junction on the route. We surveyed nineteen of them over three days of classified turning-movement counts: Katsina is the busiest at 42,066 vehicles a day, Stadium at 39,809 and Naira at around 38,000.

Two roundabouts, Lugard and Stadium, are retained and signalised. Seven others are converted to signalised junctions outright. The corridor is set out to be built and opened in three phases rather than all at once.

Rendering of the Kaduna busway with buses in the median

Rendering of a Kaduna BRT station on the corridor

Our role

Classified traffic surveys

Three-day classified turning-movement counts at all nineteen junctions on the corridor, establishing the demand each design has to carry.

Busway alignment and station layout

A centre-running median busway with dual-side-platform far-side stations, set out through each junction so buses hold priority along the whole route.

Junction concept design

Concept geometry for nineteen junctions — two roundabouts retained and signalised at Lugard and Stadium, seven converted to signalised junctions, the remainder redesigned in place.

Signal strategy

Phasing and coordination across the corridor, giving the busway priority without stalling the cross-town movements the city depends on.

Phasing and delivery plan

A three-phase delivery sequence so the corridor can be built and opened in usable sections.

Corridor length, station and fleet numbers, ridership and financing: Agence Française de Développement and the Kaduna State Transport Regulatory Authority. Junction count, survey basis, traffic volumes, junction treatments and phasing: Kaduna BRT Junction Concept Design Report, AEC Group Transport Planning & Highways, 10 July 2026 (Stage 1 Concept).