murchr wrote:maka wrote:murchr wrote:ZZE123 wrote:murchr wrote:kollabo wrote:KulaRaha wrote:Traffic is the first step he should take, you'd be surprised to see everything else fall into place easily.
Remember Kimunya's moratorium on registration of 14 seaters? Shelved for populist reasons. Lets now pay the price.
What causes jams? the 14seater matatu or the personal car that is driving one person to wherever?
If jams are to be cleared in Nrb, make it very expensive to drive..raise parking fees as per the time peek time make it over 500 to park, the county needs the revenue,
then deal with the transport sector Start by dealing with the transport sector. Ensure there is a regular means of transport in and out of town (like the trains and tramps in Europe that have scheduled timings and will move even if empty)then the rest will take care of itself. For this to happen public transport has to be the responsibility of the government.
Right now, Nairobi is well connected...there's a bus that goes any/everywhere
Boss unajua venye ni stress...ama itakuwa better if we live cars at home and use this buses?
Nairobi si stress kukosa kuwa na gari there's a bus everywhere. I've been to cities where if you don't have a car you literary cant survive, but i've never seen a traffic jam because the roads are super and if you have to get into their cbd kuna park and ride.
I've not been to NewYork yet but I understand people there dont drive...walk, cycle and ride on cabs or buses. If you look at upperhill with all the buildings coming up, think of all those people working there and hio jam itakuwa aje?
Kidero needs money and parking fees should be his first fishing net. Then the roads ministry can have toll roads in place.
I have friends who work in Washington DC and most of them live in the nearby states like Maryland, they drive to the train station, park their cars and take a 2hr train ride to DC and back in the evening. Am imagining this is like living in Naivasha and working in Nairobi.
These trains are the only solutions, alternatively restore the old bus mechanism, a 46 ma3 will go all the way to Huruma from Kawangware, a 32 one all the way from Kibera to Dandora, this way i do not want to imagine walk around town from one bus stop to another.
Kenyans have a way of accepting and moving on, you start charging 1000 bob a month, they find a way of factoring it in their monthly budgets.
Dont forget the banks are willing to give car loans to anyone with a payslip atleast, meaning a fresh graduate with a 50k salo can actualy drive a car, na kuna pesa mingi sana ya magendo Kenya.
When i bought my first car, it made sense since my bus fare plus the cost of taking a taxi over the weekends after a night out was almost equal to the amount of fuel i could spend the whole month. i pegged the extra costs of maintaining the car to the cost of the comfort i got from the car, ie sinyeshewi, i dont have to endure bad odour and loud music in a mathree etc.
Dont forget there is a generation out here who do not have and do not intend to have kids, sasa pesa iko kwa wingi....