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Waiyaki Way
contract
A busy footbridge on Waiyaki Way in Nairobi. FILE
PHOTO | DENISH OCHIENG |
By BRIAN NGUGI, bnjoroge@ke.nationmedia.com
IN SUMMARY
The project will be funded by the World Bank
and the government under the National Urban
Transport Improvement Project.
It will take three years to complete, once a
resettlement plan for affected people is effected,
KeNHA said.
Resettling the people affected by the project is
planned for the next 12 weeks.
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Chinese engineering group China Wu Yi
has won a Sh16.4 billion contract to
expand a 25km stretch of Waiyaki Way
starting from the James Gichuru Road
junction to the Mai Mahiu turnoff on the
Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
The planned upgrade is part of a World
Bank-funded mega roads expansion
project to decongest Nairobi that
involves converting the 45.2km road
between Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport (JKIA) and Rironi into a
superhighway.
In a bid to ease traffic to and from the
airport and around the city, the roads
between these two points will be
converted into a superhighway replete
with interchanges as well as service and
bus lanes, among other features.
“The project is expected to ease traffic
flow into and out of the city of Nairobi,
and is one of the three major projects
earmarked to decongest the city along
the Northern Corridor alignment,”
Kenya National Highways Authority
(KeNHA) Director General Peter
Mundinia said in a statement
Wednesday.
The mega plan to free up the city of
traffic is divided into three sections from
JKIA all the way to Rironi. PHOTO |
GOOGLE MAPS
Mr Mundinia said major works that will
be undertaken on the road section by the
Chinese firm include widening each side
of the 25km dual carriageway highway
to 10.5 metres or three lanes.
It will also involve building 44km of
service roads six metres wide and 3.4-
metres-wide non-motorized transport
lanes on either side of the entire length
of the highway to enhance road users’
safety.
Additionally, approximately 16km of
collector roads will be upgraded to
paved standard, to provide connectivity
to communities living adjacent to the
project road.
At the same time, 13 bridges at
interchange locations, 21 pedestrian
overpasses and 5 underpasses will be
built. Street lights will also be installed
on the project road.
contract
A busy footbridge on Waiyaki Way in Nairobi. FILE
PHOTO | DENISH OCHIENG |
By BRIAN NGUGI, bnjoroge@ke.nationmedia.com
IN SUMMARY
The project will be funded by the World Bank
and the government under the National Urban
Transport Improvement Project.
It will take three years to complete, once a
resettlement plan for affected people is effected,
KeNHA said.
Resettling the people affected by the project is
planned for the next 12 weeks.
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ADVERTISEMENT
Chinese engineering group China Wu Yi
has won a Sh16.4 billion contract to
expand a 25km stretch of Waiyaki Way
starting from the James Gichuru Road
junction to the Mai Mahiu turnoff on the
Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
The planned upgrade is part of a World
Bank-funded mega roads expansion
project to decongest Nairobi that
involves converting the 45.2km road
between Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport (JKIA) and Rironi into a
superhighway.
In a bid to ease traffic to and from the
airport and around the city, the roads
between these two points will be
converted into a superhighway replete
with interchanges as well as service and
bus lanes, among other features.
“The project is expected to ease traffic
flow into and out of the city of Nairobi,
and is one of the three major projects
earmarked to decongest the city along
the Northern Corridor alignment,”
Kenya National Highways Authority
(KeNHA) Director General Peter
Mundinia said in a statement
Wednesday.
The mega plan to free up the city of
traffic is divided into three sections from
JKIA all the way to Rironi. PHOTO |
GOOGLE MAPS
Mr Mundinia said major works that will
be undertaken on the road section by the
Chinese firm include widening each side
of the 25km dual carriageway highway
to 10.5 metres or three lanes.
It will also involve building 44km of
service roads six metres wide and 3.4-
metres-wide non-motorized transport
lanes on either side of the entire length
of the highway to enhance road users’
safety.
Additionally, approximately 16km of
collector roads will be upgraded to
paved standard, to provide connectivity
to communities living adjacent to the
project road.
At the same time, 13 bridges at
interchange locations, 21 pedestrian
overpasses and 5 underpasses will be
built. Street lights will also be installed
on the project road.
