"This means the water will fault its baseline and soon we shall have to redo the entire road. When you don't have a properly functional railway, you carry the burden of redoing the roads so often," he says. "One of the biggest challenges we faced during the pandemic was the truck drivers. We had about three people per truck, moving only about 20 tonnes of cargo, yet the train can take fifty times that with about three to five people." Dr. Muhumuza also notes that cargo by train normally moves into designated areas, saving the country from strenuous traffic jams and accidents accruing from the use of trucks.