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Swenani
#11 Posted : Friday, January 31, 2014 10:15:28 AM
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KulaRaha wrote:
Look at our choices: Kidero's donkeys or Kimaiyo's monkeys.

Poor Nairobians.


Do we have an urban planning and engineering department at the county level?
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KulaRaha
#12 Posted : Friday, January 31, 2014 10:19:34 AM
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Swenani wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:
Look at our choices: Kidero's donkeys or Kimaiyo's monkeys.

Poor Nairobians.


Do we have an urban planning and engineering department at the county level?


I'm sure there's a committee or workshop looking at it...obviously nothing will get done.
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nakujua
#13 Posted : Friday, January 31, 2014 10:21:29 AM
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mukiha wrote:
A "Green-Wave" sequence on Uhuru Highway sort out 75% of the CBD problem!

Green-Wave means when you enter the controlled region, say starting from Westlands R/About, and travel at the recommended speed, say 60km/h, you should reach every subsequent junction just as the lights are turning green. So you wont have to stop.

Result is that the backlog is held outside the controlled region - in this case, along Waiyaki way. As the Red-to-Green cycle flows at Westlands, cars are released into Uhuru highway in "pulses"

Cars from CBD get their chance to enter Uhuru highway during the "Gaps" in the flow pulses.

This Green Wave actually works BEST when operated MANUALLY.... but who will explain it to our Std-8-drop-out cops?

Unless I have not understood the green wave concept -
Shida ni, uhuru highway sio highway - so you really can not control or keep the speed constant over a sustained period of time.

you can not blame the cops, if Nyayo stadium / mombasa road is clogged - even if you deploy the wave movement, the cars will have nowhere to go.
Considering the size of the road from uthiru - mlolongo and the number of detours in between, employing such a strategy would be very difficult.
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nakujua
#14 Posted : Friday, January 31, 2014 10:28:19 AM
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KulaRaha wrote:
Look at our choices: Kidero's donkeys or Kimaiyo's monkeys.

Poor Nairobians.

That's a bit harsh, as far as traffic is concerned - Nairobi will need mega investments to ease the problem, either a well managed rail system, barabara za gorofa or Machakos becoming bigger than Nairobi.
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KulaRaha
#15 Posted : Friday, January 31, 2014 10:35:19 AM
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But it is possible to green wave from Nyayo to Waiyaki Way, both ways. I've even done it myself when sometimes the cops manage to co-ordinate themselves, you fly from one end to the other in 6 minutes.
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Swenani
#16 Posted : Friday, January 31, 2014 12:20:28 PM
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2030 at 5.30pm along uhuru highway
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McReggae
#17 Posted : Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:33:35 AM
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Within the CBD the Kidero lights seem to be working OK and actually better than the cops, last evening I witnessed the same!!!!
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Siringi
#18 Posted : Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:18:07 AM
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chida ni hii half-baked drivers
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washiku
#19 Posted : Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:31:22 AM
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McReggae wrote:
Within the CBD the Kidero lights seem to be working OK and actually better than the cops, last evening I witnessed the same!!!!


If obeyed, lights would be the best. Chida ni tudereva tuingine tuko na tuakili tudogo kuliko twa panya. Its even worse in areas where there are no lights at all and no one wants to give way. Today I was going to a meeting at some offices near Yaya. We spent about 20 mins kwa hiyo junction ya hapo Yaya centre. For 20 mins nobody was moving coz buses, small cars and matatus had "criss-crossed" each other on the junction and nobody wanted to go give way. Its pathetic how low drivers can sink sometimesSad
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Jump-steady
#20 Posted : Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:49:19 PM
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washiku wrote:
McReggae wrote:
Within the CBD the Kidero lights seem to be working OK and actually better than the cops, last evening I witnessed the same!!!!


If obeyed, lights would be the best. Chida ni tudereva tuingine tuko na tuakili tudogo kuliko twa panya. Its even worse in areas where there are no lights at all and no one wants to give way. Today I was going to a meeting at some offices near Yaya. We spent about 20 mins kwa hiyo junction ya hapo Yaya centre. For 20 mins nobody was moving coz buses, small cars and matatus had "criss-crossed" each other on the junction and nobody wanted to go give way. Its pathetic how low drivers can sink sometimesSad


There are no lights at the yaya junction. That is a very confusing place to drive through. Who is supposed to give way there?
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