Commuters on the busy Nairobi-Thika highway are set for rough days for several weeks, nearly two months, as contractors work round the clock to complete Outer Ring overpass.
On Monday, the commuters were in for a rude shock after road contractors closed off two inner lanes near Allsops which resulted in a traffic snarl-up all the way past Garden City Mall.
Ordinarily, traffic on the Nairobi-Thika highway only builds up near speed bumps at the Garden City Mall and at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies.
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In between the speed bumps, traffic eases up with vehicles going at average speeds of 30km/hr in the early morning traffic.
But after the two inner lanes of the highway were closed off near Allsops, the traffic was moving at a snail’s pace.
The contractors are putting up an overpass to connect Outer Ring Road with the Thika highway in bid to reduce traffic on the Outer Ring junction.
Before the works begun, motorists connecting to the Thika highway from Outer Ring Road spent countless hours at Allsops stuck in an unforgiving gridlock.
The gridlock was blamed on a design flaw that road engineers are now correcting with an overpass.
