Nairobi crying out for efficient transport

That Nairobi’s mass transport system is in a sorry state is not in doubt. Therefore, plans to establish a mass transport system to cater for 10 million residents of the capital city and satellite towns must have elicited a fair amount of excitement. However, schemes to streamline the city’s transport system have always been mooted, but either by design or default, they never take off.

Nevertheless, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s establishment of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority to manage this system for the capital and the satellite towns of Kajiado, Machakos, Kiambu and Murang’a will be a talking point for long suffering commuters.