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    "id": 1625866,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
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    "content": "and the congestion that we have, including the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), in order to do the intercity with that understanding. This is because our city was not planned with a railway or commuter railway, it is easy for us to have the commuter planned along the Nairobi Railway City. It is easy to go out of the city through a Nairobi commuter metropolitan system, which brings in a number of counties in Nairobi where our population reside in Ngong, Kiserian, Kikuyu, Kiambu all the way down to Murang’a. The governors sit in the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority decision-making process. I will just confirm to hon. Members that Bomas-Kiserian is a must-do. I can come with specific timelines because it is a critical corridor to decongest the city. Even as we thought that maybe this line is a least priority, in the latest developments, we must build a number of lines going eastward, northerly, southwest and so forth in order to bring people in and out of the city; either through the BRT and the Nairobi Commuter Rail System, in order to facilitate and remove the congestion that is currently choking the city. Madam Temporary Speaker, whereas it might be expensive to develop the commuter rail, if we see the capacity we can pull, depending on the number of units to transport up to 6,600 people and we do the economics, you will appreciate why we need both. The buses stop every so often and the train stations will be further apart. Considering the passion of Sen. Sifuna to understand what we are doing in Nairobi and the recent developments, which include the visit to the United Kingdom (UK) to see the King's Cross development and how the city can look like when you develop a dilapidated facility like the railway land which sits on about 438 acres; I would The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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