Ignore the naysayers, SGR holds great promise for economy

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The economic benefits of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project are set to soar with the ongoing extension of the project from Nairobi to Naivasha, and eventually to Kisumu and Malaba. A railway corridor of the type that the SGR project will create works as a system and its full potential can only be realized when the component parts have been fully laid out, constructed and commissioned.

Tellingly, it must be understood that while the Mombasa-Nairobi is already up and running, with a scheduled passenger service being the first offering, the end-game of what is easily East Africa’s most ambitious infrastructural project ever, is eventually, a link to Kampala, Uganda and onward to Kigali, Rwanda under the East African Railway Master Plan.