2009/9/2 Victor Maina <vmaina@gmail.com>

I agree...more lanes equal more cars. And lets be honest, we all love
cars. I believe that it’s only through incentives and availability of
proper alternatives that will alter behaviors.
The sad thing though, is that we have institutions whose mandate also
covers transport, i.e. Rift Valley Railways or Kenya Railways (sorry,
I get confused). There’s absolutely no developed country that doesn’t
have a proper train system. Its one of the vital components of a
growing economy, be it knowledge based or goods based.
I believe Kenya Railways has an amazing potential to contribute
significantly to the GDP and earn a generous profit. They should
spearhead mass urban transit systems for example a tram line set up
parallel to the existing highways. A good pilot project would be along
Uhuru Highway, right from the Nyayo Stadium roundabout all the way to
Westlands Bus Park.
In fact, some of these horrific highway accidents that we have
witnessed would significantly drop if the Railway services were able
to seize the moment and upgrade their tracks and carriages.
However, one problem would be electricity blackouts. I'd therefore
propose the system uses its own power system, sort of like the
Shinkansen (Japan).
Well, those are my thoughts.

2009/9/1 Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com>:

> as long as the pangani round about exists, a crazy T junction exists
> further up muranga road and crazy thika road matatus stop on the
> middle of ronald ngala street to fill up with equally stupid
> passengers, we solve nothing, traffic flow is still restricted
>
> On 01/09/2009, Kipkemoi <kip@kipkemoi.com> wrote:
>> Increasing roads is usually followed by increased cars - If they can reduce
>> cars - reliable dependable Mass transit etc. That is what I think we need.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> *I am just wondering, how will moving JKIA to thika change anything? Just
>>> because there is an 8 lane super highway from thika to nairobi, does that
>>> mean there will be no traffic jam?
>>> *
>>> Agreed. I still don't see how an 8 lane highway will decongest the road
>>> towards town. As long as they don't offer outlets to vehicular traffic
>>> into
>>> Nairobi from Thika road, there's nowhere the traffic will go. Bypasses
>>> need
>>> to be done and completed in parallel with the '8 lane super highway'.
>>>
>>> What does the airport have to do with the roads anyway..
>>>
>>> btw any civil/road engineers on the list ? Would be interesting to get a
>>> 'professional' opinion
>>>
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