Every hour on a bad road is lost revenue

When Benjamin Franklin, one of the American founding fathers said the famous words, ‘time is money’ he obviously wasn’t thinking of Kenya. Yet those words ring true in our country. Two years ago, the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority ranked Nairobi as the fourth most congested city in the world. The time wasted in these traffic jams bleeds the city a whopping Sh100 billion every year. Indeed, lost time equals lost money.