waaah such educative stuff here…kumbe izo vitu ziko suppose kuhandle impact sio kukataa mtu in half
This, sir, is because even in Kenyan Universities, Civil Engineering students are taught road design in 2 units spanning over 4th year (y4s1 & y4s2) called Highway Engineering 1 & 2.
Of note is that while other aspects of structural design have a clear guideline in the design process, eg design of slabs, beams and columns have the BS standards, road designs simply have no clear design guideline. Its more of a trial and error…
Eg, before the exposure to chinese roadway technologies here in Kenya, sub-base course for most roads was handpacked bluerock that took forever to lay. It was so labor intensive, because the rocks have to be resized then arranged on the compacted subgrade. Roads were being made like so because that was the technology that was at the engineers’ disposal at the time…
Enter the chinaman. Now we have base courses made of cement- treated murram and cement bound materials that are quicker to lay, less labor intensive and more resistant to pavement destresses.
Blame the system that churns out engineers. Mbisha effdens coming up
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N erect unmarked bumps on that section
Spot on!
@introvert mentioned something very important. We have to fix US. Hasn’t the statement “serikali saidia” become like a broken record. Kenyans have a weird attitude on the road, I’ve seen a guy in a probox on Nakuru highway driving like he has twin turbo under the hood, closely followed by an ipsum and a wingroad like it’s the Grand Prix.
When NTSA cracks the whip, people complain, there are cases filed in court. Ati they are unfair, bla bla bla.
Until then, this will be the headline. This being Kenya, I have a feeling some governors will do away with road travel and rely only on heliopters paid for by the paupers.