Respite for motorists as Southern bypass opens on Sunday
A Motorcyclist rides along a Section of Southern bypass on April 16, 2015. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL |
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The bypass was scheduled to be opened on Friday but the grading works have been hampered by bad weather and is only 80 per cent complete.
Heavy commercial trucks will from Sunday not be allowed to use Mombasa Road - Uhuru Highway - Waiyaki Way stretch and will instead divert to the Southern bypass providing a huge relief for city motorists.
Nairobi governor Evans Kidero has announced that the Southern bypass, which was closed last weekend to allow for accelerated grading of an unfinished section, would be opened then.
He was however non-committal on whether barriers that had been erected at the Bunyala and Lusaka roundabouts will be replaced as had been announced earlier in the week.
“The closure of the Southern bypass and the opening of Bunyala and Lusaka has greatly eased traffic in the City. We continue to consult and explore ways by which Nairobians will not continue to be inconvenienced and continue wasting man hours in traffic,” he said.
The bypass was scheduled to be opened on Friday but the grading works have been hampered by bad weather and is only 80 per cent complete.
It is estimated that the heavy commercial trucks and other traffic not destined for the city centre accounts for 30 per cent of the traffic on this highway stretch.
