The Douala Urban Mobility Project (PMUD) must find an additional 104.6 billion FCFA to maintain its current scope — namely the construction, around the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, of 66 kilometres of feeder roads intended to connect peripheral neighbourhoods to the main axis.
As of 17 July 2026, the cost needed to complete the project was re-evaluated at 365.4 billion FCFA including tax, against an initial budget of 260.8 billion. The financing need therefore represents 40.1% of the starting envelope.
Most of the overrun comes from those 66 kilometres of feeder roads added to the project, bringing the road network associated with the corridor to around 80 kilometres in total.
Without new resources or tax relief, this deficit opens the way to a downsizing of the BRT at a restructuring review scheduled with the World Bank at the end of September 2026.
The scenario then under consideration would replace the 'heavy' system initially chosen with lighter infrastructure — cheaper, but also less efficient, with reduced transport capacity and reliability.
The project, announced in Douala for about a decade, would thus join the list of Cameroon's stalled urban-mobility schemes: the timetable and the format are still being negotiated, weeks from a decision that will bind the city for decades.
