They are actually running a LEASED 25 year old engines from SA.

Kibaki's 'legacy'...

Anyone in that train currently? Please sent us a wazweet!!!

Same old way of fixing things on the surface while gaping holes are glaring.

If I park my car there for a whole week will they tell?

Yes, the day you pass the gates, even the supermarkets and malls.

To pull numbers and attract record earning, charge mbao (Sh. 20) and:
1. Sell Sh. 100 raffle tickets to win a million (main draw in 2030)
2. Introduce 'sms kibaki legacy' to 8040 and win a million @sh. 80 per sms (main draw 2030).
3. Introduce train ride political rallies
4. How about 'the BIG question' as seen on every news bulletin in all media stations?

This is all informed by kenyans love for 'free' millions and matters politics.

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Not many, maybe 6 or 7 but they are huge.

Commuter rail service is an important and much required service for Nairobi at this point in time. I will stick my neck out as a prophet of doom. The syokimau train service is a farce will struggle to remain alive in it's current state. To me it's a conduit for people to literally chew tax payer dime - campaigns have kicked off. I have been there and used the train and these are my observations;
1. It's the same old trains repainted and the couches sitting reconfigured. This is a far cry from what you expect when you hear commuter train transport. If you have used the tube in London, Gautrain in Jozi or Dubai Metro then you get my drift. Those trains are very old and sooner or latter expect money problems and prolonged breakdowns. Someone said when you paint a donkey black and white, it doesn't make it a zebra.
2. The positioning of the station is a joke and a big one. It's on the wrong side of the road and in the middle of nowhere away from the populated areas and matatu stops. There is no overhead pedestrian crossing meaning even kids will not use that train from Syokimau. The reason why it's empty is because you must really hate your life to alight at that station after 6.30pm UNLESS you have a car. Given the location, I would rather drive to nairobi anyday, the train station is just before Mabati Rolling Mills and a 2 kilometers from the JKIA interchange.
3.A commuter train service is an end to end scheduled service. They should have completed the other 1-2 stations and the nairobi railway station and launched a scheduled full day service with clear timetables. One train from an odd location to the nairobi station will struggle to attract passengers.
4. The syokimau station is also too grandiose and a waste of funds, 30% of that building and space is what is required at that end. Compare the grandeur and the museum nature of Nairobi Railway station. Shouldn't Most of that money have been spent on Nairobi railway station.
5. The 1B cost of that station suggests there was little cost benefit analysis done. I certainly believe it would cost just about 1B to put a flyover at Nyayo stadium roundabout and the effect as Thika Road has showed us would be huge. KR should get a more cost effective station model and roll out a complete commuter train service and please position it in the midst of people. They should have built that station at Mlolongo or Athi river with small scalable stations at Mlolongo, Safaricom Call center, JKIA Resort Club, City Cabanas, GM, Industrial area and finally into Nairobi Railway station. They would then charge their 100bob return with ease.

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plus free parking! i wish i lived there [/quote]

If I park my car there for a whole week will they tell?
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If you parked your car at JKIA for a whole week would they tell?[/quote]

Yes, the day you pass the gates, even the supermarkets and malls.
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Chunga sana. Ati after 10pm all vehicles are towed to Railway yard. wherever that is