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Commuters stranded as 'dry run' at Green Park affirms ours is a city running on empty

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A section of the Green Park Terminus. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The famous Green Park matatu terminus went into another “dry run” this week.

The site is famous on several scores: there is nothing “green” about the area, for trees were felled to accommodate it, and since it was invented to improve the city’s human and vehicular flows into the Central Business District, it’s been spectacularly successful in procuring the opposite effect; for neither vehicles nor humans moved.

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