On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
I still think parking is still very cheap in Nairobi. If I were to get my way, I would fix parking at an hourly rate, say 100bob an hour, and then no one will go to town and simply park their cars there, and then the Kenyans who have stuff to do at the CBD will come and get parking - then, I would improve transportation within the CBD at nearly zero bob, so you won't have a reason to take your car to the CBD if you
work there, but thats just in my head, again!!!
Ok3ch, You mean like they do in London, for instance, where it is very expensive to park a personal car within the CBD. However, as Eric Mugo has said, in London you have an almost very efficient transport system in the form of Taxi, Metro Buses and the Tube system. It's almost impossible to arrive late for anything even if you did not use a personal car! Compare that to Nairobi and you see we're looking at things in a very skewed manner. What Mr. Kisia is saying is not that they want to de-ongest the CBD. Noooooo!! I don't know why anyone in this forum is trying to put these words into Kisia's (or NCC's) mouth!! What they have said very clearly is that they want to generate more revenue for NCC to meet their budgets. It's nothing to do with improving anything for the Nairobi residents. The de-congestion of the CBD was a project of the Metropolitan Ministry, which seem to have become dormant, or only knows a thing or two about installing street lights. And BTW, suppose we elected Michael Joseph to run the City for us, or better still, become the Governor of Nairobi County... wouldn't me make big leaps???? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!!