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JKIA-James Gichuru rd Express way project
Fyatu
#1 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:56:00 PM
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I have looked at the proposed road. I looked again and again but did not see space for Bus Rapid Transport(BRT) or light rail.

I wager that after 4 years of use, the minister for transport will paint the road pink to demarcate space for BRT after it becomes obvious that the road has not solved traffic problem just like it has become obvious that Thika road does not solve traffic as long as matatus drop and pick passengers vi mandazi mandazi everywhere and pedestrians crossing the road kila mahali fwaaah like scared Zebras in manyani.

The stretch is 27 kilometers. Outering road(13 kilometers) took almost 7 years to complete.I wager this road will take 15 years to complete and will cause serious pain for Kenyans in terms of Traffic jam.

Having looked at the road designs, I have a lot of questions about how cabinet meetings in Kenya are carried out.

1. Do ministers give their opinion/suggestions ama its a monologue where Uhunye speaks for two hours straight like an old female biology teacher in a boys high school where no one is allowed to ask questions lest the old lady yanks them out of class/cabinet meeting. Or is it that our ministers don't think or are not exposed to the ways of non-shithole nations?

2. The current cabinet is made up of a couple of Phd holders suggesting it is full of intellectuals. How then is it that someone has not pointed out to Uhunye that the reason why Thika road failed flat is because of that bottleneck hapo Koja mosque whereby 10 lanes suddenly become one.Another reason why Thika road and outering roads failed flat is the small matter of pedestrians and the very dumb move of erecting speedbumbs on an express way.How can an express way have speedbumbs??Is this not stupidity?

3. Will that stage hapo GM and many more hapo South C and Nyayo still exist that cause Traffic Jam everyday?Will there be traffick cops causing Jam by needlessly stopping vehicles on the expressway as they do hapo Thika road?

4. What about jay walkers? Hapo globe cinema you find peculiar Kenyans on foot kwa barabara ya gorofa. Surely, even Nigerians are not this washamba.I wager you will find Kenyans jay walking kwa barabara ya gorofa kuelekea Westy.

5. Did Alfie Mutua of Machakos suggest to the president the need of having all matatus from DC, Kitui, Macha, Wote etc terminating at Syokimau and then passengers boarding BRT straight to Ilovi just like a nation Kenyans view with contempt(Tanzania) has done in Ubungo/Dar?

6. What about the small issue of Wachuuzi wadogo wadogo(all due respect) and lorries and cars packing on the road as they do on outering road hapo Kariobangi and traders selling their wares on the road as they do in Githurai?


This road will prove once again that Kenya is a top shithole nation which squanders opportunity to solve basic problems as traffick over and over again.


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hardwood
#2 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:05:48 PM
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It looks good to me...








Fyatu
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:14:10 PM
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From the images, there is no allocation of BRT. Also what happens to those footbridges that cost tax payers billions of shillings?

The images look pretty without matatus...insert matatus hapo and see the pain heading your way.Also insert Kenyans selling all manner of things below the road and if that is not enough insert "Ask-for-transport" lorries, trackters, taxis packed hapo

The Chinese are very smart. They finally get an expressway to GTC towers(China's headquarters of Africa).
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FundamentAli
#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:19:25 PM
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Fyatu wrote:
From the images, there is no allocation of BRT. Also what happens to those footbridges that cost tax payers billions of shillings?

The images look pretty without matatus...insert matatus hapo and see the pain heading your way.Also insert Kenyans selling all manner of things below the road and if that is not enough insert "Ask-for-transport" lorries, trackters, taxis packed hapo

The Chinese are very smart. They finally get an expressway to GTC towers(China's headquarters of Africa).


There is a BRT systwm. Look up the images. Second from top
Fyatu
#5 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:26:04 PM
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FundamentAli wrote:
Fyatu wrote:
From the images, there is no allocation of BRT. Also what happens to those footbridges that cost tax payers billions of shillings?

The images look pretty without matatus...insert matatus hapo and see the pain heading your way.Also insert Kenyans selling all manner of things below the road and if that is not enough insert "Ask-for-transport" lorries, trackters, taxis packed hapo

The Chinese are very smart. They finally get an expressway to GTC towers(China's headquarters of Africa).


There is a BRT systwm. Look up the images. Second from top



You are right.. thanks. But other questions remain unanswered
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tinker
#6 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 7:14:05 PM
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hardwood wrote:
It looks good to me...










so the Express way will have Round-about?. this is strange.
Round-abouts are known major cause of traffic jam.
Developed countries are doing away with them in favor of properly marked and managed Crossroads.
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AlphDoti
#7 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 7:31:51 PM
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tinker wrote:
hardwood wrote:
It looks good to me...







so the Express way will have Round-about?. this is strange.
Round-abouts are known major cause of traffic jam.
Developed countries are doing away with them in favor of properly marked and managed Crossroads.

@tinker think! The overpass is going to ease the jam on the roundabout. Don't you see?
murchr
#8 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 10:48:43 PM
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AlphDoti wrote:
tinker wrote:
hardwood wrote:
It looks good to me...







so the Express way will have Round-about?. this is strange.
Round-abouts are known major cause of traffic jam.
Developed countries are doing away with them in favor of properly marked and managed Crossroads.

@tinker think! The overpass is going to ease the jam on the roundabout. Don't you see?



That roundabout up there is useless and possibly dangerous. They should have express lanes and diverting/exit lanes
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kawi254
#9 Posted : Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:27:34 PM
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murchr wrote:
AlphDoti wrote:
tinker wrote:
hardwood wrote:
It looks good to me...







so the Express way will have Round-about?. this is strange.
Round-abouts are known major cause of traffic jam.
Developed countries are doing away with them in favor of properly marked and managed Crossroads.

@tinker think! The overpass is going to ease the jam on the roundabout. Don't you see?



That roundabout up there is useless and possibly dangerous. They should have express lanes and diverting/exit lanes


The Expressway is JKIA <-> James Gichuru so roundabout at the end of expressway.... I believe due to the Military camp and ABC place there is no space at that junction to do onion ring interchange.

The design would make better use of topography of the area and let Waiyaki way + expressway pass overhead and redhill <-> Jame Gichuru connection tunnel through i.e redhill & Jame Gichuru approaching waiyaki way are up steep hills.

My layman 2 cents
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#10 Posted : Thursday, October 17, 2019 11:34:24 AM
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Will be interesting to see how much tolling fees we'll be charged to use it
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