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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, because of Schedule Four, therefore, it has been rendered necessary to review the law relating to roads in our country. This Bill, therefore, as proposed in the Long Title, is supposed to be an Act of Parliament to provide for the classification, management, construction and maintenance of public roads to establish the Kenya National Highways Authority (KNHA), the Kenya National Urban Roads Authority(KNURA), the Kenya National Secondary Roads Authority (KNSRA) and to provide for the functions and powers and for connected purposes. The Bill does two things; first, it is classifies all roads in Kenya so as to give effect to the sharing of functions between the national Government and county governments. Roads have been classified before, but under the previous Constitution of this country it is only the national Government which had responsibilities of construction and management of roads. To give effect to Schedule Four, therefore, this Bill has reclassified the road system in our county; all public roads and not private roads. That classification is found in Schedule One to this Bill. The second thing this Bill does is to establish the agencies that would be responsible for maintenance and construction of roads as well as standard setting in the public roads sector. Therefore, very quickly if I can highlight some of the major provisions, first, I would like to point out Clause Six which establishes the Public Roads Standards Board as an overall norm setting agency of the national Government and county governments. The composition is provided there, but I just want to highlight some of the functions of that Board. Its composition will have representation from county governments. The purpose of that Board is stipulated in Clause 8. It includes advising on standards for roads and bridge material, design, construction, maintenance and performance levels. It is mainly engineering standards for public roads. Secondly, this Board is responsible for advising on standard contract forms for works and consultancy services. What kind of contracting needs to be done to ensure that public roads are constructed and maintained according to the required civil engineering standards? Thirdly to advice on research and studies necessary for development and updating of public roads standards to ensure periodically, our public roads are cognizant of new engineering techniques and ideas in the world that is fast changing in the area of technology. The other function of this Board would be to advise on the type, sizes and usage of vehicles on roads and maximum vehicle and axle load limit for purposes of protecting roads from damage. We have had a big problem with this issue of axle load and going forward, this is the body that is supposed to advise so that regulations are made to ensure that certain roads do not carry overweight vehicles which damage those roads faster than they would have served. The next thing that the Board will do is to advise on development and training of human resources required for development, rehabilitation and maintenance of roads. How The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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