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Don’t relent in new drive to bring sanity to our roads

Nairobi's Thika Road which is synonymous with the insanity of public transport. [File, Standard]

No sector in Kenya is defined by chaos more than the public transport sector. Sadly, because they don’t exist in a vacuum, this survival-of-the-fittest culture has rubbed off on many Kenyans.

Indeed, the story of the matatu sub-culture is one of how the drive to make a quick shilling was let to override courtesy, common decency and even the law.

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