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Kidero: The Nairobi traffic mess is being addressed


Nairobi’s traffic has been a disaster for decades – today it is close to breaking point. A road network designed for a city of just 300,000 people now has to cope with the movements of four million residents.

For over 30 years, when Nairobi was run directly by central government, there was little or no investment in the city’s transport infrastructure.

The situation has now reached a crisis point and is costing the city billions of shillings a year and suffocating economic activity. It cannot be allowed to continue.

That is why in liaison with the ministry of Transport I have introduced a series of short-term emergency measures to redirect the flow of traffic on Nairobi’s key roads by removing right-turns on selected roundabouts in the city centre.

DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS

These changes are just the first stage of dramatic improvements I have set in to modernise Nairobi’s transport system. They are the result of months of detailed planning by world-class professional traffic management consultants.

Thorough studies with real time simulation were carried out before a final decision was reached. For five months we examined the specific roundabouts and junctions that have been earmarked for upgrading.

Read the full article here.

 

The author is the Nairobi governor

SOURCE: Business Daily