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Is the Nairobi Expressway depleting wallets despite its benefits?

Sideview of the JKIA-Westlands Expressway deck at Uhuru Highway. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

Before the Sh72 billion Nairobi Expressway was erected, it would take Nelson Odhiambo 40 minutes to get to his house in Pipeline from his workplace at Nextgen Mall, Mombasa Road.

Though there were no footbridges, he would ‘creatively’ cross the busy Mombasa Road and take a matatu to Pipeline.

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