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Conquestador wrote:hardwood wrote:Maendeleo. We now have double stacked cargo trains.  Cargo to or from port?  isn't it rather obvious?
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/10/2007 Posts: 13
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FundamentAli wrote:hardwood wrote:How come we couldn't maintain our railway (and stations) which was constructed later than most rail in europe. The reason ours is not as good is because while they were busy upgrading, they found a place to damp the removed materials which were obsolete in 1905 This is our fundamental problem. We always blame them/outsiders for all our problems. We are never in a position of power, it is always something that they (someone else) did to us, and we are powerless to stop it. We have to accept we are the problem, and consequently, we have the power to change or fix the problem. Yani, it does not even occur to us to be thankful that someone was kind enough to build us a railway in 1905. Yet we are quick to blame them for not maintaining it after we fought for independence and attained it. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard than this.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/29/2011 Posts: 2,242
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cd04 wrote:FundamentAli wrote:hardwood wrote:How come we couldn't maintain our railway (and stations) which was constructed later than most rail in europe. The reason ours is not as good is because while they were busy upgrading, they found a place to damp the removed materials which were obsolete in 1905 This is our fundamental problem. We always blame them/outsiders for all our problems. We are never in a position of power, it is always something that they (someone else) did to us, and we are powerless to stop it. We have to accept we are the problem, and consequently, we have the power to change or fix the problem. Yani, it does not even occur to us to be thankful that someone was kind enough to build us a railway in 1905. Yet we are quick to blame them for not maintaining it after we fought for independence and attained it. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard than this. Maintenance is a very recent concept among former hunters & gatherers and pastoralists. Such people were always on the move and had no interest in maintaining their abode as they were temporal. Agriculturalists were a bit much more organized as they settled in one place and farmed around it. This is why you will find people sweeping their houses and throwing the garbage outside their gate, or someone driving a V8 along a highway, sipping Dasani water and their lowering the window and throwing the empty bottle on the road, and then claining how dirty our towns are. "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 14,252 Location: nairobi
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cd04 wrote:FundamentAli wrote:hardwood wrote:How come we couldn't maintain our railway (and stations) which was constructed later than most rail in europe. The reason ours is not as good is because while they were busy upgrading, they found a place to damp the removed materials which were obsolete in 1905 This is our fundamental problem. We always blame them/outsiders for all our problems. We are never in a position of power, it is always something that they (someone else) did to us, and we are powerless to stop it. We have to accept we are the problem, and consequently, we have the power to change or fix the problem. Yani, it does not even occur to us to be thankful that someone was kind enough to build us a railway in 1905. Yet we are quick to blame them for not maintaining it after we fought for independence and attained it. We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard than this. Well said
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 14,252 Location: nairobi
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2012 wrote:Conquestador wrote:hardwood wrote:Maendeleo. We now have double stacked cargo trains. Cargo to or from port? isn't it rather obvious? Of course it's from the port headed to ICD Nairobi
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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obiero wrote:2012 wrote:Conquestador wrote:hardwood wrote:Maendeleo. We now have double stacked cargo trains. Cargo to or from port? isn't it rather obvious? Of course it's from the port headed to ICD Nairobi It's both ways. Lots of tea, coffee, tobacco, macadamia, avocado, hides and skins, powdered milk, garments from EPZ, pyrethrum etc heading to mombasa for export.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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hardwood wrote:obiero wrote:2012 wrote:Conquestador wrote:hardwood wrote:Maendeleo. We now have double stacked cargo trains. Cargo to or from port? isn't it rather obvious? Of course it's from the port headed to ICD Nairobi It's both ways. Lots of tea, coffee, tobacco, macadamia, avocado, hides and skins, powdered milk, garments from EPZ, pyrethrum etc heading to mombasa for export. Each train ferrying the equivalent of 140 x 20ft containers. That is same as having 70 trucks on the road. With 7 cargo trains per day that is 490 trucks off the road each day leading to safer roads and less wear and tear of the roads saving billions for wanjiku.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/8/2010 Posts: 1,734
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hardwood wrote:hardwood wrote:obiero wrote:2012 wrote:Conquestador wrote:hardwood wrote:Maendeleo. We now have double stacked cargo trains. Cargo to or from port? isn't it rather obvious? Of course it's from the port headed to ICD Nairobi It's both ways. Lots of tea, coffee, tobacco, macadamia, avocado, hides and skins, powdered milk, garments from EPZ, pyrethrum etc heading to mombasa for export. Each train ferrying the equivalent of 140 x 20ft containers. That is same as having 70 trucks on the road. With 7 cargo trains per day that is 490 trucks off the road each day leading to safer roads and less wear and tear of the roads saving billions for wanjiku. since the launch of SGR curiously accidents have reduced between Nairobi and Msa, still alot of accidents towards western Kenya Life is an endless adventure
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