President Uhuru announced that Kenyans will begin to officially use the Nairobi expressway pn May 14th.
A day before this announcement, the expressway recorded its first accident, and the warning for motorists were many.
Are you excited for the operation use of this road?
Speaking on Sunday during the City Marathon, Uhuru said the expressway will be open for trial.
“We will allow Kenyans to use the expressway so that we see the loopholes that exist before we officially launch it,” he said.
Other than the ban on photography, skaters, pedestrians, two and three-wheeled vehicles (tuk tuks), wheelbarrows and bicycles are also banned from using the 27 kilometer way.
Here is what it will cost you if you damage anything on the expressway.
1. Weight batcher - SH 4 million
2. Vehicle separation grating - SH 167,000
3. Weight and toll data collection and control machine - at cost
4. Lane camera - SH 167,000
5. Plate detector - SH 249,000
6. Cantilever variable information board - SH 8.7 Million
9. Main line monitoring camera - SH 704,000
10. Microwave vehicle detector - SH 1.2 Million
11. Data ethernet switch of toll plaza - SH 190,000
12. Video ethernet switch of toll plaza - SH 285,000
13. Industrial ethernet switch - SH 313,000
14. Flower box along the median strip - SH 5,000
15. Landscape on bridge piers - SH 11,000
16. Lawn below bridge - SH 600,000
17. Other kinds of plants - At cost
18. Road property polluted by gasoline, diesel, engine oil etch - SH 6,000
19. Road property polluted by glass, scrap iron, coal , lime, muck - SH 1,000
20. Writing Grafitti on road property - SH 2,000
Other damage not listed shall be compensated at cost.
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