The Nairobi Expressway and the Kenol dual highway shall be ready the end of 2021. This is according to the cabinet secretary for transport James Macharia and the Kenya National Highways Authority.
According to KenHa, the 84km Kenol-Sagana-Marua dual carriageway will be ready for use by December this year. With constructions having started in July last year, the authority says that the construction of the road is now over two per cent complete. the highway is being constructed in two phases.
The first phase of the Kenol dual highway involves the construction of the 36km stretch from Sagana to Marua at a cost of Sh. 6 billion while the second phase involves the construction of the 48km Kenol to Sagana stretch at a cost of Sh. 8 billion. This highway will be commissioned by president Uhuru Kenyatta next year at over 80 per cent completion rate.
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In Nairobi, CS Macharia said that the 27.1-kilometre expressway which is being done by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) shall be ready for use in the same time as the Kenol highway.
The expressway, which will link the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Nairobi-Nakuru highway, is already 15 percent complete. Reports say that the contractor has installed over 69 pillars and earthworks along the stretch. A section of the road from Mlolongo all the way to NextGen Mall, a distance of 18.2 kilometres and which is ongoing, will be a flatbed road, while the section from Nextgen Mall through the City-Centre to St Marks church, covering 8.2 kilometres, will be elevated.
The Nairobi expressway will include a four-lane and six-lane dual carriageway within the existing median of Mombasa Road/Uhuru Highway/Waiyaki Way and 10 interchanges.