All in all, let me remind you

That thing is very inadequate. Doesn't serve those living in umoja, donholm, hurlingham, roysambu etc. You may not agree with me but i believe matatus are the most efficient form of transport coz they are always available, are everywhere, cheap, efficient and convenient in terms of drop off points. It is also mwananchi owned so the money ends up in the pockets of wanjiku unlike this brt and tram monsters which iam 100% sure will flop due to plunder, that is if they ever materialize.

Those who have been mayuu will tell you that in some places when you miss eg the 7.30am bus, you have to wait for 30m (sometimes in snow or rain) for the next one to arrive at 8.00am sharp. That means you get late for work or classes or have to hire a taxi. Woe unto you if phombe makes you miss the 1ast bus in the evening/night. Compare that to matatus that are always running, you miss one you get another one the next minute or second. Matatus represent efficiency in public transport. And because they are privately owned the owners have to make money to keep them on the road. That is unlike govt managed public transport that is normally subsidized by govt or in other words by wanjiku and is a drain to the economy.

Where is guarantee that there's definitely going to a mat? The availability of a mat depends on the traffic.

Take the Syokimau train when its running efficiently- That train will take about 45mins at most to get to railway. Now try missing the train and opting to take the mat from Syokimau. How many hours will you spend on the road supposing you leave Syokimau at 7:30am?

That's not the point. It's true that we have idle, barely used rural roads where you drive for one hour and only come across a few boda bodas. In terms of prioritizing by the govt, whom does such a road serve? Ultimately we still need to do the rural roads, but let's be guided by common sense and priorities.

I'll illustrate - Kariobangi in its entirety may only require 30km or so, to fully pave all those ugly streets. At a rate of max 30m per km, only 1b will be needed to dignify the thousands of people. Apply this general estimate on all concrete slums of Nairobi and you need less than 20b to dignify millions of Kenyans. I mean, it's that cheap!!!

GoK has offered 4b to start this, and the NCC is complimenting with another 3b. It's something, but they can do more.

The problem is we've had blockheads in govt all these years hence the rotten stinking dirty killer city.