[1] Kabul Municipality, the Ministry of Transport, and the Japan Cooperation Agency in Afghanistan (JICA) held a joint international conference in New York City in 2016 to research and discuss a potential system.
The BRT system was officially unveiled by Kabul Municipality in June 2017, which has also been referred to as Metrobus.
[3] It was reported in July 2018 that the project had been hampered by delays,[4] and as of January 2019 it is still not yet completed.
[6] It is also part of the wider Asian Development Bank's 20-year urban investment program in Afghanistan.
Construction of the BRT system is split into four phases, all serving the city's main downtown district:[9] With additional extensions it is expected to be 111 km long by 2020 including serving Dashte Barchi and Darulaman.