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    "content": "We would like to see best schools built in every area so that people do not transport their children all the way from Buru Buru to Langata or from Langata all the way to the United Nations (UN) areas and so on. In the morning, you find so many vehicles on the road because they are taking children to school. Let us encourage or develop policies where children are dropped in schools by buses. That way, we will reduce the number of vehicles on our roads. When you think about it you will find that during holidays traffic is almost none- existent in our cities, but when schools are opened, then the problem begins. If you have got a school with 300 children and each of those children is being taken with one car, or at most two children in one car, that adds to 150 vehicles moving to one school. There is no way you are not going to have congestion. In addition to indisciple there is also the policy issue with regard to our behaviour as community and how we are going to resolve the problem without necessarily resorting to extending another lane on our roadside. In any event, it is clear that we cannot continue to afford that sort of expenditure. Indiscipline is so serious in our society. It is a problem in terms of our national image. Friends who come to visit from overseas tell us that Kenyans are very nice people until they get behind the wheel, then you will not recognize the individual who had earlier on been nice to you. As soon as they grab the wheel and start driving they become unnecessarily aggressive. Most times they become totally indisciplined, they become unreasonable because, for instance, why would you block others at a T- junction? Why do you not just stop and let me pass if the car infront of you is not moving so that we can all go home? If Kenyans and Nairobians expect that by expanding roads or creating other lanes the traffic jam is going to go away, it will not. We can build the roads and the railway line, but we also have to be disciplined. I hope that the Mover of the Motion, Sen. Kittony, is going to bring a Bill that is going to address some of the issues that I have raised, including the penalties that are necessary so that our people can stop behaving as if they are driving for the last time in their lives when they are on the roads. I would also like to bring to the attention of the Mover that it will be interesting to hear the opinions of the matatus, bus associations when the Bill comes, so that we know whether they can be part of the solution of the problem rather than part of the problem. I am convinced that behind those organizations are individuals who also want to develop a good name for matatus; they are very important institutions for this country. Without"
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