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Good bicycle lanes are the answer to traffic congestion in urban centres

At the height of the ICC case against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, a group of Kenyan politicians who had travelled to The Hague to give the two moral support was bemused when the then prosecutor arrived on a bicycle.

They joked that Luis Moreno Ocampo, who had bragged that he would make the Kenyan case an example for the rest of the world, was too poor to afford a car, and that they were better off as they had boarded a bus to the court.

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