The traffic flow issue is quite complicated.

Around 2003/2004 I was involved in a project to install and program the traffic lights at one of the roundabouts in the city. When we asked for vehicle density data, we were given figures from 1986! Over twenty years old.

We did a quick impromptu survey and programmed the controller. Then we needed to test run the system for two weeks in order to see where to fine-tune the timings. This became almost impossible because the cops would never allow the lights to control the flow - interfering all the time.

At one point a cop asked why we were wasting money with extra lights inside the roundabout. His face lit up when I explained to him that they were necessary to create time for pedestrians to cross an "exit". "Oh; Kumbe? Unajua sisi hatufundishwi chochote kuhusu control. Kila mtu hufanya kivyake"

A few years later I met the then city traffic engineer and asked him what was his biggest challenge. "Political interference" he replied.

Politicians order the cops to stop the traffic and clear the way for them. This causes major traffic jams all over the city. The biggest culprit is the VP! This is how you find yourself stopped for 45 minutes at the Lusaka/Mombasa road roundabout waiting for nothing!

maybe you should go back now and be their consultant. they have the latest data...

Why don't we appreciate that motorists contribute to the mess in a very significant way? They jump lights in case where there are no cops and grind to a standstill at the centre of the round about, never giving way to any car. RESULT? Madness on the roads.

ha haa Kenyans

I think at the on start things were chaotic, courtesy of Matatu drivers.. later on, in some areas (my route)things got better.. infact traffic moved swiftly without those cops.. then i noticed the traffic lights all of a sudden were dim, spoilt!!!!.. how now? if its not the cops and rogue Kanjo officers so as to get the cops back on the routes...??

But the idiot in front cannot see the lights because HE stopped ahead of the pole....

What of those GK vehicles that use the wrong side of the round about (Parliament)?

The police is not the problem. The problem is the Kenyan who can afford to buy a car but cannot afford to think. Take a walk along city Hall way around midday and you will find two Council askaris whose job description seems to be to stop motorists at the pedestrian crossing so that pedestrians can cross. And when you stop at a red light especially when joining Uhuru Highway from Haile Selassie, the hooting behind is so loud that you wonder why we complain about people like Songo. Songo is a fair reflection of Kenyans.

Its terrible, afadhali waendelee kula until we have the right gaament in place.

Doesn't the Probox have the Kangaroo button just for that?

And where in the world is this Kisia fellow? He should have been crucified in the media by now! He should be telling us why he cannot install simple traffic lights yet @Mukiha is willing to help!Let him never try to ask me for a governor's vote! The fellow has been unable to do street lighting,traffic lights, city cleanliness... kwani what does he do the whole day? ABK!