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Firm to complete Sh60b JKIA expressway six months earlier

By Macharia Kamau | 5yrs ago
The expressway is the first major road project to be undertaken under public-private partnership model. [File, Standard]

The contractor building the JKIA-Westlands Expressway expects to cut construction time by six months and deliver the project by June 2022.

This is good news for users of the busy Mombasa Road, which is infamous for the traffic gridlocks witnessed for years.

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