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    "content": "for the construction and maintenance of county roads in accordance with the provisions of part two in this schedule. I hope in future, governors will be doing what is within their functions. One of the things that governors have done haphazardly is to take different functions which are not even theirs. They spend county monies that would have done something for their counties, on some things that they are supposed to. We should have a law that says that if county roads are Class ‘E’ as specified in this Bill, they should concentrate on that. We also have roads that go through parks. How do county governments benefit from those roads because they are the ones who sometimes manage those parks? Some of those parks have private owners who also have a responsibility so that tourists coming in can go through. I hope that has been taken care of in the Bill. We should not have conflict between the county governments, the parks and the national Government. The Bill proposes that each authority will look at ways of collecting revenue on roads. We need toll stations on different roads. A few key national roads should have tolls and that way we ease traffic on other roads. Kenyans who believe in time keeping and all that, will not mind having a toll where they pay and find that it is fast. At the same time, if I pay through a toll, we need a next road that has a toll that leads me straight into town so that you do not come so fast and get clogged in traffic in the next level of the road. Those are some of the proposals we need to think about, going forward. As the Senate, we need to ask ourselves whether the classifications are again too many. Fine, we need A, B, H, and J because they are the key highways. C and D might go to the urban areas. However, classes G, K and L which have gone to urban would have been taken back to the county governments because they are for shopping streets in the urban areas. The county governments should work together with the national Government because we need better roads. The budgets of these roads are also very critical. How much should we pay for a kilometre? It would have been important, that as they classify, to ensure that it does not matter whether it is a county or a national road; money allocated per kilometre would have been put at a standard level. This would ensure that quality and maintenance of that road is sustained for many years. This would avoid redoing the whole thing when for instance the road is being taken from one class to another. These are some of the things we should look at as a country. As we move forward, let us build a country knowing we are building the country the way Europeans built their countries. That we cannot go back in years to change something. We should build knowing this is taxpayers’ money. County roads will one time become a connection between different counties and therefore become highways. Therefore, as they classify and take the roads, they should look at how they feed in. If it is going into the next county or constituency, it should be done properly because you do not need to keep re-carpeting it. For instance, looking at the Nakuru highway, there is new technology. They have talked about maintenance yes, but there are very good technologies today of re-carpeting a road and saving money. We re-carpet our roads with so many patches that one cannot even understand. Hopefully, we should get contractors who re-carpeted Thika Road before it was redone into a superhighway. One could not have known it was re-carpeted. We should learn from that and I can see we have brought in engineers. 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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