The admission that something went awry with the Sh8.5 billion Outer Ring Road expansion plans should be the starting point in correcting the mess on the key artery.
Kenya Urban Roads Authority says it will put up an interexchange to address the gridlocks that are now a frustrating feature at the Thika Super Highway entry and exit points.
While one would appreciate the long-standing way leave challenges the project may have faced including the recently demolished Taj Mall, obvious design blunders at sections such as the link to Kangundo and Manyanja roads point to poor workmanship.
Feasibility studies for the road must have informed the number of public service vehicles ferrying workers who live in the populous Eastlands area.
One then fails to understand how buses were meant to pick and drop passengers without bus stops.
This has been the cause of unending traffic jams because matatus stop smack on the road to pick or drop passengers.
A redesign of some of the sections will be needed to address some of these challenges. We hope the authority this time gets its act right.
Outer Ring Road is meant to be a congestion-relief highway not the traffic bottleneck it now is.
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