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A traffic jam along Mombasa road. The A104 highway will be partially
closed on four weekends as two footbridges are hoisted at the General
Motors and Bellevue sections. DIANA NGILA. Photo/FILE
Nation Media Group
By BDAfrica.com reporter
In Summary
- Traffic on the A104 highway will be temporarily redirected onto one carriageway in Nairobi this weekend.
- Motorists using Nairobi’s Mombasa road have been warned to expect disruptions on four Sundays.
- Pedestrian crossing footbridges are to be hoisted at the hazardous General Motors and Bellevue junctions.
Motorists using Nairobi’s Mombasa
road have been warned to expect disruptions on four Sundays as two
pedestrian footbridges are hoisted into place.
The highway linking the capital city to
southern parts of the country will be partially closed for several hours
at a time beginning this weekend.
The Kenya National Highways
Authority (KeNHA) says contractors hired to do Sh363 million in works on
the A104 highway will install a footbridge near the General Motors
section between 5am and 9am on July 27 and August 3 this year.
Traffic will be diverted to share one of the carriageways as work on the Sh185 million crossing goes on.
A second footbridge will be
erected at the Bellevue/South B section of the same road in August, also
requiring the diversion of traffic on two separate weekends. That
bridge is expected to cost Sh177 million.
KeNHA communications head Charles
Njogu released a statement detailing arrangements to keep traffic
moving during the erection of the crossings.
“The Mombasa-bound lanes will be
closed at the Enterprise Road (GM)/ A104 junction,” the notice reads.
“Traffic will be directed to the Nairobi-bound lanes at the U-turn near
the Enterprise junction.”
Only one of the three lanes on
the carriageway will be available for traffic headed out of the capital.
Motorists will be returned to the Mombasa-bound lanes at the U-turn
just after the Total Petrol station.
On August 3, when the span over
the Nairobi-bound lanes is hoisted, traffic will be redirected to and
from the Mombasa-bound ones at the Total Petrol Station U-turn and the
Enterprise road junction U-turn.
“Motorists are urged to plan
their travel with this in mind,” KeNHA says. “They are also urged to
cooperate with the contractor’s staff and the police, who shall guide
traffic as the works are carried out.”
The elevated crossings are part
of works intended to make the highway safer for pedestrians. Dozens of
people have been killed on the highway since it was expanded to a
six-lane dual carriageway.
“Studies conducted last year
indicated that majority of the accidents took place at General Motors
and Bellevue, partly due to the growth of industrial and residential
developments around those areas,” Njogu said.
The works along Mombasa road,
which began in August last year, are being carried out by H Young &
Company East Africa Ltd. They consist of the GM and Bellevue junction
footbridges, public toilets, paved pedestrian walkways, railings and
road furniture, including traffic signs covered in a contract for Sh363
million. KeNHA also plans to construct an additional ten footbridges
along Nairobi's Thika Road to complement the existing 18 crossings.
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