9% use personal cars for transport at what percentage of the traffic????......almost 50% meaning that it if you deal with this lot then you are addressing a big chunk of the problem!!!!

Hi Wazuans.
Finally am a member. To celebrate, i would like to contribute to Mukiha's observation.
I do agree with you, but only 50%. Reason being,present day Outering Road is usually a nightmare,yet it was constructed as a bypass to ease traffic flow from the Airport across to the other side of Thika Road.I do not want to sound like a pessimist but these by passes were designed years ago. The time it has take to acquire funding from the kina world Bank etc has seen transport dynamics change drastically.So i believe more thought should have gone into the redesigning of the bypasses.

However with the Thika road expansion,i beg to differ with you.traffic flow in thika road will be greatly enhanced once the expansion is done. and while railway would help,it will take years to restructure.we do not expect thika road users to suffer all the while as we await for a railway.

look at it this way,when the government finally puts up an efficient railway system,we will have a choice between the road and the railway.then you will choose.it will be a win win for all of us. thought

I oppose the motion that says 'Thika Road Expansion was a mistake coz I believe experts planned for it with good reasons. Other busy roads also need expansion coz road transport is here to stay.

@yekeyeke
This is just a discussion and our views will not change the status quo. No one is stopping the Thika road project.

Hold your balls man and wazua soberly and in a respectful manner.

[quote=mukiha]If they had asked me, I'd have suggested that we spend all that money in improving the railway link between Thika and Nairobi.

The problem is not the size of the road; it is the number of cars using it. The way to reduce this number is to provide an good alternative to road transportation.

Watch this space: as soon as the expanded highway is opened, the traffic jams will return. Simple reason being that people will have moved from Nairobi to Thika enmase

Have you seen the developments going on along this highway...all waiting for it to open?[/uquote]
mukiha may be right on this.thika road and nairobi still remains a parking lot on weekdays.as long as we have nyayo uhuru university r/abouts jams will go nowhere.

@Marty & @User:

Regarding those roundabouts; what would you replace them with? Flyovers? We must be careful not to respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer!

Guys, either way, all nairobi environs will eventually be congested, road expansion or not! The fix lies in a multi-prong approach to solving congestion not refusing to take the first steps into developing infrastructure!!! geez. The highways still need to be expanded with roundabouts knocked up (an engineers problem not tax-payers) & aggressively pursue by-passes without relenting to public pressure, the metro-rails built as is in the CURRENT planning & implementation, decentralize government services and pursue satellite cities like Konza. Give credit where it is due for once.

With the Lamu project coming up, Isiolo's status will change. Most of the goods to Nairobi will pass through Isiolo as Mombasa has now exceeded its capacity. A dual carriageway is planned for the whole stretch. The other issues is roads are not built to serve us now, but to serve for he next25 or 50 years depending on the design life.

i have noticed those markers on trees and on fence posts that indicate road markings almost done on all before road construction and rumours once held that there is a dual carriage way coming. when i do not know i repeat these are rumours(dont lynch me)

How I wish something could be done quickly on The Uhuru Highway, Outering Road and Southern Bypass. The full benefit of Thika Road would be realized. Am sure the CBD is not the final destination of all those coming from Thika. It reminds me of taking 3.5hrs driving from Kisumu to Westlands and then 1.5hrs from Westlands to Imara Daima due to the Jam.

The cancer eating this country remains tribalism. Having driven extensively on kenyan roads, Thika road project was long overdue, being the busiest in east n central Africa. The risk of the noble project getting unfair tribal n political tags runs high though. The appaling state of some other very important roads really irks me. Voi-Taveta, Eld-Ktl, Wby-Ksm, Ktl-S.Sudan, Outering, juja rd....Thank God most of them are soon to be given a facelift. BTW, the recently completed Sagana-Marua highway (A2) is now full of potholes barely 2yrs later, courtesy of one Kirinyaga Construction. ABK.