Thank you @Tokyo, where were you 1,000 posts ago, guys have been on @impunity's arse for like a week

You see, the Chinese charged the kenyan @wanjiku for a steel-and-concrete fenced railway track only to come back door and raised it (elevate) it some few meters above the ground with ugly-looking soil embankment hoping that it will serve the same purpose as a fence.

It will not.

May be if they elevate it to some 50m above ground.

Questions have been asked as to why "our" SGR is almost twice as expensive as Ethiopian's yet the terrain between Mombasa and Nairobi is much less problematic than the Ethiopian's...in fact the land between Mombasa and Nairobi is generally flat and largely barren and inhabitted.

The Ethiopian path is comparable to our Rift Valley.

It will be interesting to see the actual cost the Chinese will charge for contructing the line from The Kikuyu escarpment all the way to Fort Tennan and onward to Lake side Citeh.

Even if they pass through Narok and Bomet they will still have to descend the Kikuyu escarpment at Kijabe and join the Kisumu line around Kericho or Koru area.

Hold your breathing.

I have not come across, or rather I have not searched for the project cost and breakdown of the same, nasikia its hard to get the same, but it would be interesting to see to which areas the cash was allocated and by how much, but you are right the cost issue has been a thorny one, and all that is happening now is guys are just speculating, for the raised platform mimi nimesikia its to try and achieve as much level, avoid flooding issues and also avoid walevi.
lakini hi mamo ya japan I have never been huko, I only travel via google images, thus the confusion on this fencing thing because I can see some images that contradict that, but anyway wacha we believe those who have been on the ground huko, they should know better.

Toa Jubilee goggles first then I will provide evidence.

JJ