New changes on how the Thika Superhighway is used have been announced.
According to these changes, there will now be one lane dedicated for public service vehicles as the Transport ministry moves to address jam headache into the capital Nairobi.
While addressing the Senate’s Roads Committee at an ongoing meeting, the Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said the new plan takes effect on Thursday.
Thika Road is one of six corridors into the city identified by the authorities in a bid to reduce congestion in the capital city.
“We need more than 900 buses in these six corridors and because we don’t have them, we have opened one corridor, the Thika highway. From Thursday, we are starting the demarcation and dedication of that lane,” Mr Macharia said.
The plan is to encourage the entry of high-capacity buses into the city.
The plan to set aside lanes for public service vehicles has been spoken of since the days the late Mutula Kilonzo took over as Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development in 2008, without any evident steps towards implementation.
Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet on Wednesday said that over Easter, KeNHA did a study to establish which lanes can be dedicated to use by PSVs.
