jaggarnaut,you are right.No wonder I see a lot of big 4wds in Nairobi which are used primarily to take the owners to work and collect kids from school.Try using forest road at 4 p.m and see the jam at primia academy as kids are picked up from school.

ouch

That has never happened and it will not start today ati because there is a train. I watched citizen a guy saying that he spends close to 700 on fuel and parking, a train makes perfect sense to him.

A quick one, if u plant to chauffeur ur neighbors to their work places, how much will u be charging them for fuel and maintenance?

@mukiha, I think you are wrong to a great extend.

One,the police do a good job,they open the road with more traffic and clear exit for longer than the road with less traffic or a jammed exit. In the developed world,cops regulate the timings of traffic lights during peak hours from a switch board. You simply can't program that on the busiest of roads.

Two, the roundabouts creates unnecessary delays negotiating. They should be replaced with cross junctions,especially the ones on uhuru highway. Take the Kenyatta avenue/uhuru highway roundabout.
If you open uhuru highway both ways,from university way and from haile selasie,stopping the inner most lane [for turning right] hence releasing the ones proceeding straight and those turning left,with the roundabout,you have to negotiate that semi circle before proceeding. Now compare that with cross junction. On the latter, you would just drive straight saving the time you would have lost negotiating the roundabout curve and achieving higher speeds.. Now picture when releasing all cars turning right,you have to negotiate three quarters of the damn roundabout, how much time is lost? Compare that to just turning right.

Roundabouts should go, there is a reason why you don't see them in most of the developed world.

Because those cities have a funtional traffic system. Take a ride to pangani police roundabout and report to us the chaos you shall be treated to at the juja rd-ring road crossroads. Utter disorder. a policeman must be present at all times except late at night.

Before proposing the removal of the Uhuru/Kenyatta roundabout {NB: for those who don't know what a pun is, that was a nice example!} please walk 50m east to the Kenyatta/Koinange cross junction and observe the chaos!

And here is a bit of history: in the early 1980s, the Car&General junction was a cross with traffic lights....chaos every day and we had much much fewer cars. The a bright traffic engineer at city hall converted it into a roundabout and removed the lights...problem solved...to this day, i might add!

Yes, its Diesel-electric.

yes, it draws its electricity from the diesel engine

@sitaki, not everyone here is an engineer or has the basics of physics; they rely entirely on what Lilian-Blonde-Muli reports as gospel facts!

Mwambie the train he is seeing on the tracks is actually a moving giant electric generator.Most people dont know this fact including one makerege na phombe zake.

Waa...middo klass si iko na chida! People wd rather drive to work and after work go to the treadmill and pay inflated gym cost than just walk when they can! SMH. Walking is healthy...take the train and save money, walk and save (on hospital bills becoz you have a mountain for a tummy)...take the train and save time....and in the long run...less cars to the CBD means less traffic snarlups, which might translate to less fair for guys using the matatus and less time taken in the jams in the instances you decide to drive to work.