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Mombasa super bridge plan set to relieve ferry pain for Coast residents
Japan’s ambassador to Kenya, Ryoichi Horie (left), and Acting Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani at the signing the Mombasa Gate Bridge loan deal in Nairobi last month. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA
An American structural engineer, Joseph Straus, once said: ‘Bridges are a monument of progress.’ This adage will soon hold true to residents of the Coast region, with the construction of the proposed Mombasa Gate Bridge across the Likoni channel.
Construction of the Sh46 billion bridge, to facilitate traffic between the city of Mombasa, the South Coast and Kwale, starts in 2021 and is expected to boost trade and tourism on the South Coast.
