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    "content": "connectivity should be retained by the national Government because then counties would have jurisdictional challenges of dealing with such roads. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Class H roads are urban major arterial highways meant to carry through traffic and relatively long distance traffic between widely separated parts of the city or municipality. They are required to provide mobility within the urban areas as opposed to access. Those are major roads in urban centres. With regard to county roads, we have Class E, which initially under the previous classification, was the lowest class of road. After that the rest were classified as Class R which were the rural access road. However, now because we have so many roads in the counties, the classification has been expanded so as to give counties as much leeway as possible to open up rural areas with public road transport. So, you have Class E which are major feeder roads linking important constituency centres within a constituency to each other and are meant to carry local traffic and channel it to Class D roads. They would feed into Class D roads. Then, we have Class G which would link farms to markets. These are very important roads for the economic revival of this country. They link markets to farms where farm produce and other materials are produced. Then you have class K which are urban major collector roads meant to collect traffic from the local roads and channel it to the major and minor roads. They are meant to provide for both mobility and accessibility; including bypasses in our towns which are missing. Class L includes urban minor collector roads, then Class M; main business and shopping streets in the urban areas. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, most of our urban areas are dirty, unkempt and the roads are not maintained. Instead of counties contesting for big roads with the national Government, and this is the proposal of this Bill, we want through devolution, a country where even in the most remote part of Kenya, a small village in a certain constituency in a certain ward, one can get good well-maintained and graded all weather roads; if possible even, tarmacked. That is what will make Kenya move to the next level of economic growth and development. We then have Class L, M, N to P which link people’s houses. This classification has been expanded tremendously to make sure that county governments which could not imagine that you can create roads from what is existing rather than competing with the existing kilometres of roads. This Bill is offering counties a wide range of selection through which to open up our country, link our farms to markets, link villages, shopping centres, wards and urban centres. A combined effort of county governments and the national Government in the public roads sector, under the new Bill would make Kenya a great country in the shortest time possible. I do not want to speak more than that. I beg to Move and request Sen. Sijeny to second this Bill."
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