Kipchumba Murkomen, the Transport Cabinet Secretary, met with Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja on Thursday to discuss strategies to alleviate traffic congestion in the capital.
Murkomen heated debates on how to efficiently improve Nairobi’s transportation networks during the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority’s (Namata) maiden council meeting.
“We are working with the National Government to make traffic jams a thing of the past,” Sakaja stated.
“Efficient, affordable, and dependable mobility is critical to unlocking our people’s potential.”
The council members agreed that the first priority should be to restart the delayed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) initiatives across Nairobi.
BRT, a comprehensive public transportation system for millions of Nairobi commuters, remains a pipe dream as development along the Thika Superhighway has stopped.
The Bus Rapid Transit project was designed to provide city inhabitants with a dependable, secure, and comfortable system.
It had hoped to improve Nairobi’s chaotic public transportation infrastructure in order to lessen congestion, but that remains a pipe dream given the project’s glacial progress.
