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Unclogging Nairobi Traffic jams
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Nairobi has become the defacto capital city of East and Central Africa due to its superb infrastructure, banking and insuarance industry and educational institutions and this brings a very huge number of vehicles to the city on a daily basis.

Like many other developing nations Kenya has got no policies on sustainable urban mobility and the insecurity makes it diffucult for people to adopt more ecological means of transport like cycling, horse riding or even walking to work.

The government has over the last two years embarked on an ambitious transport infrastructure expansion project building eight lanes highways on the Thika highway and building several bypasses to ease the transport problem.

More emphasis should be put on creating public awareness and debate on cycling as a means to ease the monstrous traffic jams that plague Nairobi city as the reliance on motorised transport is costing Nairbians approximately 800 billion per year on wasted man hours and fuel cost.

September 7, 2009 | 7:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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