Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Public transport. A staple part of daily life in almost every country in the world. Except, it seems, Bahrain, where trains are mythical objects akin to unicorns, and buses are like the Illuminati; clandestine and ever-present, but nobody seems to want to talk about them.
Transport chiefs are hoping to entice commuters and shoppers out of their cars and on to the buses following a massive investment in a fleet of vehicles and plans to demolish and rebuild an estimated 400 shelters around the island.
