Transport infrastructure in Kenya
Transport infrastructure in Kenya
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Edward Wanjala
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Picha hizo zuri sana!!! Kenya hapa naona karibu tufike!
Rendering of the proposed JKIA Station,
Nairobi Light Rail
Looks like it's going to be a tube??
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Let us wait and see.
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Nairobi Sh14bn light rail project set to finally start
The construction of light commuter rails to link Nairobi estates with the city centre is set to start after viability studies of the Sh14 billion project meant to ease congestion on roads.
The project, which has been on the cards for the past five years, will involve construction of nine railway transport corridors whose trains will pick commuters from several estates and drop them at the Nairobi Railway Station in the Central Business District (CBD).
The nine commuter corridors include Ruiru-Thika, Juja Road-Kangundo, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport-Athi River, Lang’ata Road-Karen and Upper Hill-Ngong.
Others are Kabete-Kikuyu, Gigiri-Limuru and Outer Ring Road in the city’s Eastlands area.
“Feasibility study has been completed and the preparation of terms of reference for detailed designs is ongoing,” reads a government note prepared by the Planning ministry.
The government seeks to ride on deep-pocketed private investors to offer Sh14 billion ($138 million) and expertise for the construction of the city railroads under a public-private partnership (PPP).
In the deal, private firms will invest in the project, operate it for an agreed period to recoup their expenses and profit before handing it over to the State.
Nairobi residents continue to grapple with traffic jams daily as road expansion has failed to keep pace with the volume of cars being added to the roads.
Efforts to find out construction dates were unsuccessful as phone calls and text messages to the project implementing agency Kenya Railways Corporation’s managing director Atanas Maina went unanswered.
Currently, commuter trains are limited to a few estates with only a few stations including at Syokimau and Imara Daima on Mombasa Road.
Other routes with train services include Embakasi, Ruiru, Kahawa and Kikuyu.
The proposed mass commuter trains are part of the wider Nairobi Metropolitan Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) that aims to integrate different transport models to ease congestion, including heavy rail, light rail and a bus rapid transit.
The bus rapid transit will involve construction of dedicated lanes on the roads for well-organised, large-capacity buses aimed at improving public commuter service and easing congestion.
The special bus routes will run alongside the normal highways except within the CBD where they will be elevated through construction of double-decker roads.
The construction of light commuter rails to link Nairobi estates with the city centre is set to start after viability studies of the Sh14 billion project meant to ease congestion on roads.
The project, which has been on the cards for the past five years, will involve construction of nine railway transport corridors whose trains will pick commuters from several estates and drop them at the Nairobi Railway Station in the Central Business District (CBD).
The nine commuter corridors include Ruiru-Thika, Juja Road-Kangundo, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport-Athi River, Lang’ata Road-Karen and Upper Hill-Ngong.
Others are Kabete-Kikuyu, Gigiri-Limuru and Outer Ring Road in the city’s Eastlands area.
“Feasibility study has been completed and the preparation of terms of reference for detailed designs is ongoing,” reads a government note prepared by the Planning ministry.
The government seeks to ride on deep-pocketed private investors to offer Sh14 billion ($138 million) and expertise for the construction of the city railroads under a public-private partnership (PPP).
In the deal, private firms will invest in the project, operate it for an agreed period to recoup their expenses and profit before handing it over to the State.
Nairobi residents continue to grapple with traffic jams daily as road expansion has failed to keep pace with the volume of cars being added to the roads.
Efforts to find out construction dates were unsuccessful as phone calls and text messages to the project implementing agency Kenya Railways Corporation’s managing director Atanas Maina went unanswered.
Currently, commuter trains are limited to a few estates with only a few stations including at Syokimau and Imara Daima on Mombasa Road.
Other routes with train services include Embakasi, Ruiru, Kahawa and Kikuyu.
The proposed mass commuter trains are part of the wider Nairobi Metropolitan Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) that aims to integrate different transport models to ease congestion, including heavy rail, light rail and a bus rapid transit.
The bus rapid transit will involve construction of dedicated lanes on the roads for well-organised, large-capacity buses aimed at improving public commuter service and easing congestion.
The special bus routes will run alongside the normal highways except within the CBD where they will be elevated through construction of double-decker roads.
Mr.Wenger
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Pamoja na yote hayo bado KANU iliondolewa madarakani, sasa nyie endeleeni kuilea CCM
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I remember being our vehicle being shot at on o rescue mission in 2013
Kafrican
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Ok, i'll bite...
Explain
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i bet they cant try that now. the terrain was bad by then any vehicle approaching town from Oddha has to climb at a slow pace a perfect site for ambush laying.the target was the OCS but we repulsed those hired OLFs and went to cool off the heat in Ethiopia afterwards.Two ambushes one at a place called Funanyatta and on that ascend.
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what!? ...are you still in the force? you've got some nice life experience ...hehe it must be nice to feel alive...that adrenaline!!!!
Its probably going to end, once goods start to be transported to ethiopia the govt will have no choice but to guarantee its safety.... those groups like OLF will come under the govts active radar.... people will want to set up more petrol stations along the way, more motels for long distance drivers to rest in (once there are motels the oldest form of bussiness will start ti creep up along that corridor..... and then now that they have built that one stop border there will be a parmanent imnigration dept there, this would mean an AP or GSU base will have to be relocated somewhere close by to guarantee security..
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Thins changed i haven't heard of another full scale tribal clashes since that time we quashed the clashes. Just some hilarious story i heard that some elders were against the extention of the road to Sololo township issue being that they were afraid of their ladies ending up in Nairobi😀😀.I left after the Kapedo story that was a deal breaker for me was there man.
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Govt signs Sh23bn Chinese loan to build Kibwezi-Kitui road
Daily Nation
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The National Treasury has signed a Sh23 billion loan with China Exim Bank for construction of the Kibwezi-Mutomo-Kitui road.
The 192km road is the first phase of the upgrade that will cover a 472km stretch with the financing for the second and third phases to be signed later.
The second phase will be from Kitui to Kanduya through Mwingi (167km) and phase three will be Kanduya to Usueni (113km).
The total cost for the three phases is Sh50 billion with Chinese firm Sinohydro undertaking the works.
“The government is committed to ensure that construction of this road is done to transform the counties of Makueni, Kitui, and eventually link to the Garissa-Moyale corridor in order to exploit the growth and development of Kenya,” Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich said during a signing ceremony on Tuesday.
More and more kms of roads....
Daily Nation
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The National Treasury has signed a Sh23 billion loan with China Exim Bank for construction of the Kibwezi-Mutomo-Kitui road.
The 192km road is the first phase of the upgrade that will cover a 472km stretch with the financing for the second and third phases to be signed later.
The second phase will be from Kitui to Kanduya through Mwingi (167km) and phase three will be Kanduya to Usueni (113km).
The total cost for the three phases is Sh50 billion with Chinese firm Sinohydro undertaking the works.
“The government is committed to ensure that construction of this road is done to transform the counties of Makueni, Kitui, and eventually link to the Garissa-Moyale corridor in order to exploit the growth and development of Kenya,” Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich said during a signing ceremony on Tuesday.
More and more kms of roads....
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Nairobi Mombasa pipeline (phase 1) 90% complete
The construction of Kenya Pipeline Company’s Sh48 billion Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline will be completed by April 2017, the management has said.
“The overall project completion is at 68 per cent, while the construction of the actual pipeline is 90 per cent complete. The focus now is on the construction and installation of equipment at the new pump stations,” managing director Joe Sang said in a statement on Friday.
He said the contractor, Zakhem International, is working around the clock to deliver a high quality and safe pipeline for Kenya and the region.
“We are very pleased to announce that we are in the final phase of the construction of the pipeline and we anticipate a smooth transition into the operationalisation phase,” Sang said.
KPC has scheduled a meeting with Zakhem International this week to appraise the status of the project.
Sang said the project will enhance security of petroleum supply for the country and the region.
The country’s petroleum demand has grown to an average 5.7 billion litres in 2016 up from four billion litres in 2013, pegged on increased economic activities.
“Line five will adequately serve the country’s petroleum demand, which is projected to be 6.8 billion litres in 2020,” Sang said.
The 450km 20-inch diameter Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline (line 5 ) is a Vision 2030 flagship project to replace the current 38-year old Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline.
The pipeline is complete with four new pump stations in Changamwe, Maungu, Mtito Andei and Sultan Hamud and two booster pumps in Kipevu.
Phase one of the new pipeline will have an installed flow rate of one million litres per hour by 2017, phase two 1.9 million litres per hour by 2023, and phase three will be 2.6 million litres per hour by 2044.
The project is designed to enhance KPC’s pipeline devolution plan into the counties by increasing product availability in Nairobi that will feed spur lines into Western Kenya, Central Kenya, Rift Valley and South Nyanza regions. The line will remove about 700 trucks from the roads.
The construction of Kenya Pipeline Company’s Sh48 billion Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline will be completed by April 2017, the management has said.
“The overall project completion is at 68 per cent, while the construction of the actual pipeline is 90 per cent complete. The focus now is on the construction and installation of equipment at the new pump stations,” managing director Joe Sang said in a statement on Friday.
He said the contractor, Zakhem International, is working around the clock to deliver a high quality and safe pipeline for Kenya and the region.
“We are very pleased to announce that we are in the final phase of the construction of the pipeline and we anticipate a smooth transition into the operationalisation phase,” Sang said.
KPC has scheduled a meeting with Zakhem International this week to appraise the status of the project.
Sang said the project will enhance security of petroleum supply for the country and the region.
The country’s petroleum demand has grown to an average 5.7 billion litres in 2016 up from four billion litres in 2013, pegged on increased economic activities.
“Line five will adequately serve the country’s petroleum demand, which is projected to be 6.8 billion litres in 2020,” Sang said.
The 450km 20-inch diameter Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline (line 5 ) is a Vision 2030 flagship project to replace the current 38-year old Mombasa-Nairobi pipeline.
The pipeline is complete with four new pump stations in Changamwe, Maungu, Mtito Andei and Sultan Hamud and two booster pumps in Kipevu.
Phase one of the new pipeline will have an installed flow rate of one million litres per hour by 2017, phase two 1.9 million litres per hour by 2023, and phase three will be 2.6 million litres per hour by 2044.
The project is designed to enhance KPC’s pipeline devolution plan into the counties by increasing product availability in Nairobi that will feed spur lines into Western Kenya, Central Kenya, Rift Valley and South Nyanza regions. The line will remove about 700 trucks from the roads.
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Rounder reloaded - Juja road: This will be the mother of all beauties.. It's gonna be an overpass rounderbout.. you can actually see the pillars forming a curve .. It's gonna be the best rounderbout in nairobi.. good thing is that it's wide enough
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I like it.
Rounder reloaded - Juja road: This will be the mother of all beauties.. It's gonna be an overpass rounderbout.. you can actually see the pillars forming a curve .. It's gonna be the best rounderbout in nairobi.. good thing is that it's wide enough
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