Nairobi traffic and possible solutions

Traffic jam along Thika Super Highway near Ngara. [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

The National and Nairobi County governments have been carrying out a trial and error exercise aimed at either decongesting the City or attaining free traffic flow without major success. Notable among the trials are closing off some roundabouts, abolishing right turns at minor junctions, installation of new street lights (at the moment each roundabout has at least 3 sets of street lights installed by different regimes – most probably without a synchronised traffic lights system), introduction of terminus outside the city centre and lately car-free days.

Little has been felt in terms of time spent in traffic, especially in the evening and morning hours . It is important to appreciate the Government’s effort to push as much traffic out of the city centre as possible by construction of a road through Kibera slums connecting Ngong Road and southern bypass, dual road connecting Waiyaki Way and Limuru Road, connecting Hospital Road in Upperhill and Mbagathi.