To minimise accidents on busy roads, use cameras to monitor traffic, enforce rules

Reducing the human interaction with cash in the name of fines. In many countries where people have exhibited good manners and courtesy on their roads, stopping at the lights even at midnight, crossing roads at the right place etc every road user is very aware that any infringement of the law captured on camera will attract a mandatory fine and will end up on the record of the driver. PHOTO: COURTESY

Nairobi’s transport problems are old. They seem intractable; if anything, they seem to worsen by the day. The temptation is to shrug and walk away. We can’t.

Many of us saw Monday night’s interviews with the victims of Sunday’s horrific accident on Lang’ata Road. They expressed themselves with a quiet dignity, in the face of terrible sadness. We owe it to them, and to the loved ones they lost, to make absolutely certain that no one else suffers as they have.