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sitaki.kujulikana
#711 Posted : Tuesday, January 29, 2019 4:33:24 PM
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wukan wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Industrialization and motor vehicle assembly top of Big 4 Agenda... Imports BRT buses from SA.



Local assembly converting hino/isuzu lorries and mounting the frame and then calling them busesLaughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Kweli we love mediocrity. Those are not buses just converted trucks like those face me pickups that used to serve mashambani commuters. We end up with matatus trucks that belch black smoke all over. BRT buses have own specifications including wide doors and low emission engines.

Don't you find it crazy that you are buying those BRT buses that have all those specifications and yet the roads with the BRT specifications don't exist.
I mean if the government really wants to spur growth in manufacturing, is it really that hard to create wide doors and import low emission engines - seriously, if one can make a narrow door they can be encouraged to make a wider door, and if one can import a high emission engine they can be asked to import a low emission one, ama south africa manufactures low emission engines.
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wukan
#712 Posted : Tuesday, January 29, 2019 4:41:50 PM
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:
wukan wrote:
sparkly wrote:
Industrialization and motor vehicle assembly top of Big 4 Agenda... Imports BRT buses from SA.



Local assembly converting hino/isuzu lorries and mounting the frame and then calling them busesLaughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Kweli we love mediocrity. Those are not buses just converted trucks like those face me pickups that used to serve mashambani commuters. We end up with matatus trucks that belch black smoke all over. BRT buses have own specifications including wide doors and low emission engines.

Don't you find it crazy that you are buying those BRT buses that have all those specifications and yet the roads with the BRT specifications don't exist.
I mean if the government really wants to spur growth in manufacturing, is it really that hard to create wide doors and import low emission engines - seriously, if one can make a narrow door they can be encouraged to make a wider door, and if one can import a high emission engine they can be asked to import a low emission one, ama south africa manufactures low emission engines.


Govt is only importing the first 64 buses. BRT will need like 900 buses to run so really the assemblers will have caught up if they want to. We should not subsidize mediocrity. We are not doing Githurai 45 and kenya mpya buses period.
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murchr
#713 Posted : Tuesday, January 29, 2019 6:00:21 PM
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hardwood wrote:
Hehe. The jumbiree govt has finally come up with a solution....Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

https://www.the-star.co....obi-government_c1885508

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The government has announced that Nairobi will be car-free on Wednesdays and Saturdays starting February 1.

Transport PS Paul Maringa on Monday said there will be dedicated parking in Uhuru Park and Railways as no car will be allowed within the CBD during these two days.

Maringa said during the set days, hawkers will be allowed to sell their wares.

The PS said this will generate Sh39.5 million daily revenue to the government from over 100,000 hawkers.

Maringa said the move which is a pilot program, will employ many, generating Sh 3.8 billion annually.

"The pilot stage is starting off with Moi Avenue, Harambee Avenue, Taifa Road, City hall and Mama Ngina Street," Maringa said.

He said the exercise will be fully done in Kenyatta Avenue, University way, Moi Avenue and Haile Selassie, before going to Westlands.



This is stupid. Do hawkers pay taxes?
"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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tom_boy
#714 Posted : Tuesday, January 29, 2019 6:05:15 PM
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Idiots... Why only wednesdays and Saturdays. They should make it a totally car free zone all days. In fact, dig out the current tarmac roads and replace with specially designed bicycle tracks.
They must find it difficult....... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. -G. Massey.
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kawi254
#715 Posted : Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:17:39 PM
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tom_boy wrote:
Idiots... Why only wednesdays and Saturdays. They should make it a totally car free zone all days. In fact, dig out the current tarmac roads and replace with specially designed bicycle tracks.



We will still have to import bicycles to cycle on the bicycle tracks...kushikanisha tube za steel/aluminium hatuwezi since 1963.
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murchr
#716 Posted : Wednesday, January 30, 2019 5:34:48 AM
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Is that nonsense starting today?
"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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bwenyenye
#717 Posted : Wednesday, January 30, 2019 8:51:56 AM
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Could someone kindly enlighten me why the Ministry of Transport has sudden interest in hawkers? Why is it giving instructions on road use in CBD? Where is the Governor in all this?

AS someone says... This is too jumbled up to be clean... I feel this is a cover show for something else... They know for sure it does not make any economic or administrative sense. They know it will fail... But they push it anyway.. Kuna mchezo inaendelea....
I Think Therefore I Am
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Conquestador
#718 Posted : Wednesday, January 30, 2019 2:38:49 PM
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bwenyenye wrote:
Could someone kindly enlighten me why the Ministry of Transport has sudden interest in hawkers? Why is it giving instructions on road use in CBD? Where is the Governor in all this?

AS someone says... This is too jumbled up to be clean... I feel this is a cover show for something else... They know for sure it does not make any economic or administrative sense. They know it will fail... But they push it anyway.. Kuna mchezo inaendelea....


At 1.14 therein your answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQgE2RaocMY
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Lolest!
#719 Posted : Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:52:30 PM
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Car free days implementation postponed
Laughing out loudly smile Applause d'oh! Sad Drool Liar Shame on you Pray
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deadpoet
#720 Posted : Wednesday, January 30, 2019 5:04:29 PM
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clowns running the Ministry of Transport.... why don't they just implement the 2018 JICA study?
http://open_jicareport.j....jp/pdf/12307658_01.pdf


If you want to go back in time to 2006:
http://open_jicareport.j...o.jp/pdf/11823085_01.pdf
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