The newly upgraded Ngong Road will have an interchange at the Prestige plaza area to create a seamless connection with the Kibera link road traversing the slum to Lang’ata road.
Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) said the road agency had completed 78 percent of the road that links Ngong Road and Lang’ata Road with the middle section crossing Ngong River in Kibera now the only missing link.
The exchange at Ngong road is expected to reduce gridlock at the intersection between the Ring Road Kilimani and the new Ngong Road-Kibera-Kungu Karumba-Lang’ata link road.
The agency will now have to increase the budget for the Kibera link road by hundreds of millions in what may also extend the long wait for the link road that has featured in plans for upgrading Nairobi’s road network since the 1970s.
At least 30,000 Kibera residents, including schools and children homes, were affected to pave the way for the link road
The link road, which is part of the government plan to ease traffic congestion in the city is being carried out by H.Young (EA) Limited.
