The expressway is not only highly needed it is inevitable from an economic perspective. Anyone who has slept on Mombasa road due to jam that blocked this corridor in the past can tell you that for free. It is funny how many argue that SGR is not "breaking even" yet are yet to tell us if Southern Bypass has "broken even" given zero shillings are collected from it yearly. Public goods like expressways and railways are not gauged by how they "break even" but by how much they create economic efficiencies and spillover benefits that are economy wide that add to GDP. Why do these Ferras think our economy has been growing at an average of 5% plus since 2002. From planting and selling beans? Has Sasumua dam broken even? What about Nyali bridge? The cabro pavements in the CBD, have they broken even or have they helped you walk more efficiently to work instead of wallowing in mud and spending extra money to get a shoe shine? Have the public footbridges on Mombasa road that cost hundreds of millions of shillings "broken even"? Tukiinya twetu tweli tuna tuwatu twa maanjabu tena Sana.

On a lighter note, DC is also the place of choice for national prayers and fasting, rogue pastors or performing said prayers and fasts notwithstanding.

https://www.tuko.co.ke/3...s-pray-kenya.html#302102

1. SGR is going to cost a trillion shillings
2. It was touted as a project that would pay for itself, read the "feasibility report" that China itself did, which we now know was hogwash.
3. A 3rd world country borrowing that kind of money to build a railway (which is archaic technology anyway) while people die hungry and schools/hospitals are in a dire state is nonsensical at best.
4. Thika Road feasibility study explained what its economic benefits would be, essentially how it could explain its cost.
5. Research first and understand things, these are billion dollar projects not a cabro pavement to your house.

<10 minutes yes, but >2hrs on Mombasa rd. Traffic. Sometimes i wonder if the government ministers and permanent secretaries use their brains or bollocks(bums for the fairer sex) to thinks

There's something wrong with the way dynamic duo run govt. These are not the days when policy documents, feasibility studies would be developed by technocrats and then taken up the chain for approval / adoption. These days the projects are conceived at the top and work of ministry technocrats is reduced to tracking progress, no questions asked. All the structures built since independence on economic planning and public financial management have been turned upside down and replaced with nothing

Fair enough..i highly suspect the train from Syokimau only does 3 trips to-and-fro CBD. At 6AM to Syoks and back to CBD at 8 thereabouts. Back to Syoks at around Midday and back to CBD at 1PM ferrying folk from inter-county SGR and the last one to Syoks at 6:30PM which ferries folk from Mombasa to CBD at 7:30PM.

The French president was here the other day and spoke kizungu mingi about lite rail. Whether this is the usual hot-air we are now accustomed to or not we shall wait and see...sanasana my prayers is that this is not hot air(kama affordable housing)

1. How much has it added to the economy? Give me figures, attach statistical reports from relevant bodies too. 40k direct jobs support your claim with facts
2. The same SGR govt is paying 1b a month to run is "breaking even"? give me a break! It can't even make enough money to sustain its operations
3. SGR cannot even afford to pay for its own operations and you think it will generate economic benefit to such level We are spending all this money on a train and you think we can't feed our own people! It's more than enough for that
4. A $5billion investment can't explain it's benefit but you want patience. Laughable. It is even more expensive than road now, only way it is surviving is by forcing importers to use it
5. It is a pointless project with 0 value for money. It would only make sense if we made Uganda pay for it from Naivasha since they are the only ones who will benefit

There is a passenger station in Tuala

On almost breaking even:
https://www.google.com/a...asAMP-kbn5xy/index.html

10 b is not your mum's ugali papa, and cargo volumes are GROWING monthly yet cargo services began just juzi juzi. By next year Ati "breaking even" will not be a point of discussion. But of course you miss the bigger picture -the economic efficiencies and spillover benefits SGR has bestowed upon the Kenyan economy. But I can tell you might have not taken any basic economics classes given your amateurish arguments regarding public goods and their function in society. Especially a rapidly developing one like Kenya.

"The revenues were not enough to meet the operation costs, which were earlier estimated at Sh1 billion a month or Sh12 billion a year." - The $3billion investment that was touted to pay for itself can't even break even? This is on top of it being subsidised If we remove the subsidy it is nowhere close to breaking even!