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    "id": 501112,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gaichuhie",
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        "legal_name": "Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie",
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    "content": "drive in cities like London, you have to pay a tax known as Congestion Charge. I think we should expand Jogoo Road because we know there are very many estates that are coming up along the Eastern side of Nairobi. We have estates like Pipeline, Utawala and the rest which all congest Jogoo Road. We need to expand Jogoo Road and maybe have a bus route that will have a lane that will be used by Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) only. We have seen the influx of tuk-tuks and motorbikes. If we modernise this Jogoo Road, it is high time we thought of having separate lanes for buses, motorbikes and tuk-tuks. After Jogoo Road which is a dual-carriage road, there is a bottleneck at Landhies Road. If we can have the Muthurwa land that hon. Gakuya is talking about, set aside for expansion of the Landhies Road so that we can have a better flow of traffic in the City, it will help. The 50 acres that are along Muthurwa are in a very prime area. If you look at the way we are expanding our businesses in this City, we have converted all shops into boutiques and remained with very small shops. So, if we can expand Muthurwa and have high-rise markets over there, it will also decongest this City. We will not need people in the City,we can have them terminating their journey at Muthurwa Terminus. This is land that, as my friend has said, needs to be secured. There is a trend in this country of “big fish” who always want to take such prime land. If we can secure this land by having a law that will make sure that this land is used for the expansion, it will be good. I want to support this Motion and say that it is not Jogoo Road and Landhies Road only that should be expanded; there are many other roads. We need to expand them so that we can decongest this City. I would also want to thank the former regime for thinking of having bypasses which have decongested the City although it is not the best that we would have wanted. As we also consider expanding these two roads, we should also improve on our railway system. I do not think we need to wait for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) so as to have a better railway system here in Kenya. We can use the existing railway and improve on the Syokimau and Makadara stations and make frequent trips to Nairobi rather than use roads. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker if you remember very well, this Government had a plan to do an overpass from Westlands through Uhuru Highway all the way to the airport. I do not know where those plans went and that is why we are having a lot of congestion along Uhuru Highway. So, as we also think about expanding and modernizing Jogoo and Landhies roads, I think the Government should come back to realising that we need to have that overpass that was supposed to be built six years ago. I would urge the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing to remind the Government. I remember when hon. Uhuru Kenyatta was the Minister for Finance, we went to the World Bank to negotiate over this overpass. As the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, please remind him because he is now the President of the Republic of Kenya. That is the only way we are going to decongest our transport mode from the airport to Westlands or to the City centre. I support this Motion and urge other hon. Members, especially those of Nairobi City to come up with Motions that are going to help decongest these roads. With those very few remarks, I want to support the Motion. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}