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Missed SGR trip turns into lesson in resilience amid Nairobi traffic chaos

Heavy traffic and flooded roads along Mombasa Road disrupted travel plans for passengers heading to the SGR station during the long holiday weekend.

Last Friday, we set forth at dawn for an early train ride to the Amboseli, as I outlined in the last reflection. It was a Friday, a public holiday and an extended weekend. I had slept too soundly to realise trouble would be afoot, after overnight rains.

 After all, the combined county and national governments’ incompetence can’t deal with the rains. A friend called at 6.30am to warn that Mombasa Road was impassable. We braced for the worst.

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