You will have to walk to and from town as matatus are ordered out of Nairobi city centre

 Matatus at a Nairobi terminus

In Nairobi County’s gazette notice, county askaris and NTSA will enforce the orders that demand matatus not access the CBD Commuters will have to walk to and from the city centre to termini outside of the town

 

Matatus operators will not access Nairobi Central Business District from Wednesday next week after Nairobi City County effected a new directive.

County askaris, police and National Transport and Safety Authority personnel will enforce the orders in the county’s Gazette Notice of May 12, 2017.

“All previous gazette notices or letters allocating any other place as picking and dropping areas in CBD are hereby revoked and become null and void as from September 20, 2017,” read the public notice.

Commuters will have to walk to and from the city centre to six termini at the peripheries of the capital that have been allocated by City Hall.

The notice from acting County Secretary Leboo ole Morintat directs matatus from Waiyaki Way, Uhuru Highway, Kipande, Limuru and Thika roads to offload passengers at Fig Tree terminus in Ngara. Those from Nyeri, Thika and Murangá will end their city journeys at Desai Service road and Park Road terminus.

Urban and peri-urban matatus from Mombasa and Langata roads will end their journeys at Hakati terminus. PSVs from Jogoo will terminate their safari at Muthurwa terminus.

There have been past attempts to kick out matatus from the CDB, but they have always proved difficult to enforce.