“…The idea of bus stations as places of unregulated, ungovernable conduct became a legitimate motive for replacing them with new government-mandated terminals. Reforms based on these experts' recommendations traveled from Accra to Cape Town and Dakar and through to Dar es Salaam and Marrakech (Cissokho 2012;Lomme 2004;Ndiaye and Tremblay 2009;Rizzo 2015). Backed by huge investments and the creation of new government agencies for reasserting state presence in the transport sector, such as AGETU in the Côte d'Ivoire and CETUD in Senegal (Bredeloup, Bertoncello, and Lombard 2008), the shift in policy triggered considerable resistance on the part of local transport operators, who saw their commercial existence come under threat.…”