Transport chaos exposes true cost of greed

PSV vehicles at the Green Park terminus when NMS carried out the final test run. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Driving in Nairobi has often been likened to navigating the narrows of troubled places like the Gaza Strip, Donetsk or West Bank. Strokes of pervasive regulatory failures have frustrated transport sector reforms almost to a point of no return.

The industry is huffing and puffing. From faulty vehicles, speed limit violations, inspection gaps, reckless crews, corrupt enforcers, bogus driver competence testing and name it, the mess is enough to make those in-charge resign out of shame.