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Revealed: How vested interests killed Outer Ring road’s allure

Airgate Centre, formerly Tajj Mall, along Outer Ring Road, Nairobi.

For a piece of infrastructure built on the lessons learnt from constructing the Thika Super Highway, Outer Ring Road had an opportunity to be the best not just in Nairobi but in the whole country and region.

Instead, protection of individual interests of some developers, delays in construction, budget overshoots, design variations and lack of proper planning have turned the highway into a nightmare that residents of Nairobi’s Eastlands have to contend with every day.

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