Behavioural change crucial to road safety

NAIROBI: The establishment of the National Transport and Road Safety Authority (NTSA) has led to a marked improvement in road safety measures. In turn, this has reduced the number of road accidents.

Regulating an industry that has for years operated without rules - except for a short period in 2004 when the then Transport minister, John Michuki, managed to bring a semblance of order by rigorously enforcing traffic rules - was never going to be easy for NTSA. Touts and public service drivers, the notorious of the lost were going to do anything to circumvent the law in their pursuit of profits.