Embrace Cycling To Work To Ease Traffic And Congestion

By Soko Directory Team / Published December 3, 2019 | 12:12 pm

Nairobi transport is best known for huge traffic jams especially during peak hours and during rainy seasons such as now, making Kenya’s capital be classified as the second most chaotic city in the world to live in.

The effects of this are usually congestion on the roads and getting late to work, given that traffic and congestion are mostly experienced in the morning.

The UN Habitat has come out to urge city residents to embrace non-motorised traffic (NMT), to help do away with the problem of congestion.

Non-motorised traffic, which includes cycling and walking, will not only ease the congestion but will be a way of promoting a healthy nation.

UN-Habitat Executive Director, Maimunah Mohd Sharif, said during an event on safe cycling on Monday, 2^nd December 2019, that city-dwellers ought to embrace cycling as a means of transport to work or to go about their daily businesses.

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Ms. Sharrif observed that if safe infrastructure were to be provided, then cycling in the city would be the most ideal means of transport as it would be fast and environment-friendly, given the good climate that is experienced in Kenya.

The UN-Habitat Executive Director further advised that the government looks into providing an alternative, modern high capacity public transport system to substitute with walking and cycling.

“Seeing that the roads in the city are already choked with too many cars, it would be wise if the government provided a high capacity means of public transport,” said Ms. Sharrif.

During the event, Housing and Urban Development Principal Secretary Charles Hinga said that Nairobi had adopted the NMT policy, which they recognized as cycling, walking, skating, strollers, human-drawn carts and wheelchairs in 2016.

In his statement, Mr. Hinga said that the Nairobi Integrated Urban Masterplan (NIUPLAN) for the period 2014-2030 had identified the challenges faced on the roads and that this was a good step towards achieving the NMT policy.

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