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Perfect Blind (Black) Spot on Thika Road
Mpenzi
#1 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:21:45 AM
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The new underpass at the junction of Ojijo Rd and Parklands Rd heading to Museum Hill appears to be a perfect blind spot. If you are driving from Museum Hill or on Ojijo Rd and wish to use the underpass to go down Kipande Rd or to go back to Museum Hill, there is no way of telling whether there are vehicles heading to Museum Hill on the Parklands - Museum Hill Rd.
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#2 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:28:42 AM
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I think the section is not yet completed and motorist are advised to exercise extra caution.
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#3 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:45:24 AM
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Mpenzi wrote:
The new underpass at the junction of Ojijo Rd and Parklands Rd heading to Museum Hill appears to be a perfect blind spot. If you are driving from Museum Hill or on Ojijo Rd and wish to use the underpass to go down Kipande Rd or to go back to Museum Hill, there is no way of telling whether there are vehicles heading to Museum Hill on the Parklands - Museum Hill Rd.


d'oh! I used the road recently and I completely agree with you!
MaichBlack
#4 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:19:50 AM
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I agree with you @mpenzi 110%. I have used that under pass severally and it is totally messed up. You can't tell if there is an oncoming vehicle. If you move the car just enough to check, the whole front part of you car will be on the path of any oncoming vehicles even before you see them!

I have used the under pass at Kahawa Sukari and it is way safer. What they have done is that they have created some sort of 3/4 circle/oval at all the corners of the under pass - like some sort of a flower bed - which eats into part of each of the roads. Both drivers get to see the other's car before they get into each other's paths. The under pass at Museum road/Kipande road doesn't have enough space for such a thing the way it is at the moment. Short of expanding the roads to and from Parklands near the under pass and doing the same thing done at the Kahawa Sukari under pass, you can bet that place will become the worst black spot in Nairobi especially after the road is completed. Combine that with the fact that westlands is fast becoming the drinking capital of Nairobi and all the youngsters driving their parent's cars Friday and Saturday nights and you get the full picture!

By the way this is true testament that different parts of the roads are being done by different companies!!!
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#5 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:00:48 PM
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Good observations. Hope something can be done about it. Funny just the other day was thinking, what if after putting up these complex ovetrpasses they realize they made a design error after all that work? How will they correct it? I always look at the overpass at ngara and wonder how it will join the rest of the road
Mpenzi
#6 Posted : Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:07:46 PM
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Shak wrote:
Good observations. Hope something can be done about it.


Possibly they "cut" some chunk of concrete from the corner of the tunnel so as to create some space thro which the drivers on either road can have some chance to see each other, albeit small.
Mpenzi
#7 Posted : Saturday, September 17, 2011 1:55:58 PM
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MaichBlack wrote:
I agree with you @mpenzi 110%. I have used that under pass severally and it is totally messed up. You can't tell if there is an oncoming vehicle. If you move the car just enough to check, the whole front part of you car will be on the path of any oncoming vehicles even before you see them!

I have used the under pass at Kahawa Sukari and it is way safer. What they have done is that they have created some sort of 3/4 circle/oval at all the corners of the under pass - like some sort of a flower bed - which eats into part of each of the roads. Both drivers get to see the other's car before they get into each other's paths. The under pass at Museum road/Kipande road doesn't have enough space for such a thing the way it is at the moment. Short of expanding the roads to and from Parklands near the under pass and doing the same thing done at the Kahawa Sukari under pass, you can bet that place will become the worst black spot in Nairobi especially after the road is completed. Combine that with the fact that westlands is fast becoming the drinking capital of Nairobi and all the youngsters driving their parent's cars Friday and Saturday nights and you get the full picture!

By the way this is true testament that different parts of the roads are being done by different companies!!!


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