If they had asked me, I'd have suggested that we spend all that money in improving the railway link between Thika and Nairobi.

The problem is not the size of the road; it is the number of cars using it. The way to reduce this number is to provide an good alternative to road transportation.

Watch this space: as soon as the expanded highway is opened, the traffic jams will return. Simple reason being that people will have moved from Nairobi to Thika enmase

Have you seen the developments going on along this highway...all waiting for it to open?

@mukiha It wasn't such a big mistake its good for the area at least some kenyans will benefit. The biggest mistake is failure for those inharge to foresee the bigger problem ahead if nothing is done to the infrastructure in nairobi in the next 2 years.
They just have to get rid of the annoying roundabouts and at least provide alternative link roads for the time being cauz honestly i don't see the railway idea happening in 2 years.

@Mukiha. Wewe ni P***u. If you have a plane to take you to various places, why do you want us, wealth earners on thika road to use trains? Have you ever in your short life been inside a train?. Bure kabisa.

The KES 26B thats being spent on thika road is the best money ever to be spent on any road in kenya.

I supporse that you also strongly feel that the bypass money should also have been spent on a project of your choice?

Did you ever study ecomonics in school? Do you know the link between GDP growth and infstructure?

Wewe you need some serious prayers.

Trains and people of thika road do not mix. We are not cows!!!!!! to ride on trains.

Wewe nyamaza tu to see the road get completed and then you can move to thika road as well. We have seen property appreciate in nairobi, only in areas where there is infrastructure.

Kama Thika road inajaa, una shida gani. Kama umeona Green intashindwa kwa referndum, ulituletee sisi.

Wacha barabara ijengwe.
-How do you go shoping with a train?
-How do kids go to school in a train?
-How do you deliver produce in a train?
-How do you ask +80K cars users a day to use a train.
-Wewe ni P***u!!!!

I choose to disagree with mukiha. Those flyovers at the bottlenecks were long overdue. And this being the busiest highway in East/Central Africa, something had to be done. The railway should follow, to compliment rather than substitute the road system. As for the self praising yekeyeke, I think he is the real idiot....no apologies whatsoever.

I disagree with Mukiha too. Nairobi is not yet crowded...it will get crowded and then in say 20 years we shall have to do a similar new highway ABOVE the new thika rd.