Rongla wrote:Nairobi needs a multi storey underground car parks and Matatu termini at Uhuru park grounds and other strategic junctions . Uhuru park can absorb traffic from Langata road, Mombasa road, Ngong Road and waiyaki way. The car park can also host the menacing Hawkers and other street businesses currently suffocating the CBD . Globe cinema roundabout, Gikomba market and Machakos Bus Station can have similar Car parks and Matatu termini to cater for traffic from Eastlands and the North of Nairobi.
Once implemented, Matatus should only be allowed in for a set period of time to pick up passangers or each route be allocated a number of spaces.
No vehicles should be allowed in the CBD. A light rail system should be in place to link up all the termini and the CBD.
Maoni tuu
I disagree with the Uhuru park suggestion. Uhuru park is a beautiful place full of trees and grass and should not be defiled by diesel emitting matatus and over defecating makangas, hawkers and chokoraas.
Most of Nairobi's traffic is caused by matatus. If you look at Mombasa road, there is always traffic near general motors because matatus drop and pick passengers on a stage around there.There is always traffick near belle view, and near cabannas heading to town dueto a bus stop just near the cabanas eastern bypass flyover.
On thika road there is traffic hapo garden city, allsops, survey, mathare mental hospital and Ngara and guess why.....? There are unofficial bus stops in these areas. On Ngong road, there is traffic around Kenyatta hospital area and you can guess why.I can go on and on with my examples..
My suggestion is to copy Dar es saalam and their Ubungo model. Matatu termini should be 15 kms from CBD. Any estate within 15km radius should be served by light rail/bus rapid transport etc. Anything short of that means we remain shithole citizens who will continue swallowing diesel poisons/emissions from dozen matatus at Kencom,ambassador,Tom Mboya street, Ronald Ngala street, Accra road etc in our chaotic overrated city Nairobi.You build a superhighway in the name of outering road and stil allow matatus and pedestrians/commuters to board and alight/cross the road anywhere they wish. If this is not a testament of how dumb we are then i don't know what is.
Another suggestion is to have matatus travel express e.g., they get filled-up in the estate termini say pipeline Embakassi or Kayole termini, and then travel direct without dropping passengers until they reach town termini
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