{"id":213282,"date":"2025-11-11T21:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nine-in-ten-kenyans-say-ride-hailing-safer-than-traditional-transport\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:07:33","slug":"kenya-nine-in-ten-kenyans-say-ride-hailing-safer-than-traditional-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nine-in-ten-kenyans-say-ride-hailing-safer-than-traditional-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nine in Ten Kenyans Say Ride-Hailing Safer Than Traditional Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A new Ipsos Safety Index commissioned by ride-hailing platform Bolt shows that 94 percent of Kenyans consider ride-hailing services safer than traditional transport modes such as matatus and conventional taxis, highlighting a major shift in public perception toward tech-driven mobility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The study, which surveyed 250 active users across Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Nakuru, attributes this confidence to the reliability of ride-hailing apps and their advanced in-app safety tools that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511110511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 A new Ipsos Safety Index commissioned by ride-hailing platform Bolt shows that 94 percent of Kenyans consider ride-hailing services safer than traditional transport modes such as matatus and conventional taxis, highlighting a major shift in public perception toward tech-driven mobility. The study, which surveyed 250 active users across Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Nakuru, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":213283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,9058,257,28283,7719,254,7740,9464,8343],"class_list":["post-213282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-ridehailing","tag-safer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ten","tag-traditional","tag-transport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}