please don’t pretend like Nairobi’s problems began with Sonko
If Uhuru can give Kalembe Ndile an appointment to a state job, do you expect anything from him
information on this is needed
There shores are closer to Europe so they get a lot of knowledge… The government has enough road reserves all they have to do is grab them back…
Who do you thikn owns our beloved long distance trucks, buses and matatus??? If you can figure out the answer, then you have the reason why such things like subways and city trains and trams cant see the light of day in Kenya!!
And by the way, your beloved Kenyan leaders are not ignorant, they have travelled the world and seen all these things, it is just that they are not in THEIR interest to implement…
SIMPLE: kikuyu cartels in the transport sector is the reason
1.) The death of the matatu is inevitable an. Just like how we don’t see horses and carriages anymore.
2.) Nairobi isn’t overcrowded what Nairobi suffers from is poor planning. Space is there all the government needs to do a forceful return of its land.
3.) BRT is politicized because it’s about eating tenders. No one is complaining of the bad upgrading of the commuter rail system that is ongoing yet it has the potential to move a lot of people.
On subways, costs depends highly on the soil type below. Sandy, rocky, red of cotton soil. That is how one subway can be as cheap as $100 million a kilometer to $1 billion a kilometer. Until that underground geographical mapping happens in the Nairobi route picked then we will know the type of tunnel machines needed. Lastly subways are the last means of public transport after you have exhausted buses and commuter train services like light train and trams. What Ministry of Transport is trying to do now is to introduce a new commuter train service. However CS Macharoa and PS Hinga have picked on world bank proposal of the same which is very rudimentary, ineffective and dummy down type of commuter train service. It will use the existing decades old track only rehabilitated. Instead of giving one proven global operator to fund, operate and maintain the service. Instead of building BRT lanes which a inefficient service for our traffic needs, build a tramline like Ethiopia on those lanes. They can run on road shoulders or overhead where land acquisition is a problem. Problem with world bank projects is that they are designed to inhibit rapid modernization of infrastructure. If you look at their suggestion for SGR it would mean spending a $1.5 billion in revamping the lunatic express. However due to the narrow gauge, short tunnels and tight curves the speed would be capped at 60km and cargo capacity would be a small amount of 8 million tonnes annually. Way inadequate for it to warrant an upgrade.
This project has been a pain for the last 10 years. It now year 11 since the first design were out. It construction was to begin the sane time with Thika road. It was even awarded to Stratsbag in 2009 to build with funding from world bank. However global politics took over. A Russian firm bought stratsbag parent company in Switzerland. World Bank stopped that funding saying the Russian firm owner is blacklisted. Meanwhile all contracts had been signed. We couldn’t repeal it without a risk of litigation and big compensation claims from them. We tried 5 times to end the statement by arbitration up to 2015 when they finally surrendered the project. World bank now asked for a new feasibility study, design and bill of quantities. They did it and incredibly increased land compensation to Kshs 15 billion. That section of Name Gichuru road, Kingara up to Ngong road was to be dualled as well as a feeder road. The Kangemi market was to be rebuilt as a ma market worth 5 billion and many other claims in westlands. That placed the road financial package to be very expensive and Treasury couldn’t authorize that loan package. Eventually even the President turned it down. It was redesigned two other times to a lower cost. However by grace the stàtue of limits with world bank on this project ended in Dec 2018. Treasury gave them a termination letter to put them.on notice that it will not be done by them. In Jan 2019, Ministry of Transport under instructions of the Presidency awarded this JKIA-ABC place overhead highway project to CCCC. The SGR Chinese builder. They will finance, build, operate and maintain this highway for 25 years by PPP. They will upgrade the below road which will be free. The overhead highway will be an express toll road including commuter train. Those who want to travel fast and express will pay something like Kshs 200 to cruise above.
Mijinga
Takataka
sakaja for house on the hill and 10years later my son will be calling from a very modern city nikiwa pale busia
Kenyans don’t want any sort of order, walk around and see how people conduct businesses.
Someone just outs their wares and goods on the pedestrian walk way yet there’s space away from the walking path.
There’s a degree of stupidity, lack of order, can’t even get the words to express what this behavior could be.
sirkal ndio imetuangusha due to 25hr politicking, public order hakuna coz ya mtu/watu wetu syndrome. thats why ukipata mtu amekunya juu ya choo na wewe unakunya hapo kando juu hakuna mtu wa kukuuliza, in a month meffi imefika inje kwa corridor and life goes on as if everything is alright. kaa sirkal ingestop hii kunya juu ya choo ilipoanza the mess wouldnt be there.
welcome to kenya
Hii ndio drumpf alimaanisha aliposema shithole ama?
Nyinyi hamjui …for things to change in this country , what we need is a complete overhaul of leadership …This place needs new people to run the govt …brand new !
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1. They must have U[SIZE=5]niversity Degrees.[/SIZE]
2. They must not have criminal records esp corruption cases
3. They must have one spouse / wife each.
4. They must not be affiliated or connected in any way with current politicians .
I think any leader worth his name has to be a capable , respectable , some-how morally upright or dignified and should have a weakness or something to lose if he f*cks up (family) .
We need a few trillion shillings lying around to build a subway system in Nairobi.
We should first accept our reality, that we are a very poor country. If we do a proper above ground system, we won’t even need a subway.
There are two ways in which modern cities are developing around the world. On one hand we have the well planned cities with a low population density of richer people, which has facilitated excellent urban planning and maintaining of public spaces.
The way that poor- middle income cities grow, for example in the Asian countries, is based heavily on entrepreneurship. It’s disorganized, rambunctious, busy, overcrowded, lawless. There will always be the beautiful uptown areas but downtown is where most people earn their daily bread.
Therefore, as much as matatus are a nuisance, you cannot get rid of them in the name of modernization when most people rely on these jobs to survive. People must eat, beauty wachia wazungu.
It’s premature to talk about subway systems when majority of people are hungry, poor, unemployed and have bleak future prospects. First things first.
I imagine Nairobi will grow into a mini Mumbai, not London.
Because it is taking eons and many in the matatu sector have not yet taken notice of it yet.
hapo kwa number 3 ni nguma saidi, ngumu sana, infact its impossible
Nairobi soil tests have been done. And they yielded results that a Metro system is very much capable in Nairobi and I believe JICA did a report showing a ring system in the CBD is possible. I have tried looking for that report without much success… And its probably sitting in a shelf somewhere in the Ministry of Transport.
The plan showed that a ring system in the CBD linking Westlands, Upperhill, Nyayo Stadium, all the way to JKIA is very much possible and doable for exactly a billion dollars or even less using cut/cover system or better yet we use the exact method the Chinese used on the Ngong Tunnel which is called the New Austrian Tunneling Method which passes through 6 fault zones. A much more hectic engineering schedule than having to do something similar in Nairobi.
A metro system is not the last means of public transportation??? Its a system meant to facilitate easier access to the city. And a lot quicker than a bus or overhead tram lines. Nairobi is becoming urbanized at an explosive rate and we have lost a combined time of 20 years with useless government planning. A BRT Bus, Trams, Metro, Commuter Rail, Ropeways, etc. these are systems that give the public individual options to use they all complement each other. I live in a city with 5 modes of transportation and they’re water taxi, metro, trams, commuter rail, buses, taxis, and Uber. All these modes of transport system work with one another in improving access and livability in a city. Which Nairobi is severely lacking…
I agree with you with the bad pace and horrible implementation of the commuter rail system.