Long-suffering commuters forced to contend with city’s traffic madness

Pedestrians jostle for space with motorists snaking their way through the traffic jam caused by the construction of the Nairobi Expressway along Mombasa road near Nyayo stadium. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Finding one’s way into and out of Nairobi’s central business district is not for the fainthearted. It takes good planning, above-average negotiation skills, ingenuity, guile, effort, time, money and a dose of good luck to get to and out of work, town, or school in the city on time. Often, everything goes wrong for commuters.

And no sooner has one arrived at their workstation than the plotting of how they will make their way back home starts. It is not a particularly pleasant cycle.