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The battle for life and sanity in Nairobi did not start yesterday. The carnage which has recently transformed parts of the smoothest roads in the city into death traps too has been going on for ages.
Even long before the matatu and all its attendant madness had been invented and Nairobi was not even a city, the nightmare of road carnage was real and town planners, appalled by loss of over 100 people annually, in 1944 started looking for answers.
Interestingly, although, this was a time Africans were barred from walking on sections of the streets, horses had right of way in some sections which also boasted an estimated 11,000 cyclists who were facing unique problems.
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