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    "content": "That is the reason why people are able to read books in those countries. I was wondering how people are able to finish the novels that they buy to read. That is because they are in a train for about 30 or 40 minutes in the morning and evening. That way, they just sit and read. The trains are comfortable and well lit. When they get top the end of their journey in morning, they go to work and in the evening, they read their books going home. Life becomes a little bit easier for them because they are not dealing with the hustles of traffic, running around, hooting and getting angry. You reach home when you are so angry for sitting in traffic jam for two hours. Some motorists get so impatient, that they end up climbing on pavements or driving on the wrong side. Consequently, motorbike riders hit their side mirrors or many others incidents that make you insecure. By the time you get home, you are so stressed. You take the stress to your family. Some of the stress that is experienced in Nairobi is contributed to by traffic that is caused on the road or by just walking on the streets. Madam Temporary Speaker, a city like Beijing, the city alone has about 30 million people. However, you cannot see all those people. When you go there, you will wonder where the people are. People are operating underground. They use the trains to get to their work places and once they have worked for the day, they go down the building, get back in the underground trains and go home. You do not see them crowded in the city because there is a good transport system. I look forward to the time when a proper planning of the economy of the three or so counties in what is usually called Nairobi metropolitan city will provide a framework that will be borrowed in Nakuru, Eldoret, Kitale, Kisumu and Mombasa. In fact, by now, if we were serious, the light rail trains would have been operating in Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu as we work towards the other cities. What is the point of landing in Mombasa at the airport? If we had the light trains, one would just land at the airport, enter the train and stop at the basement of the Sarova White sands Beach Resort and Spa. We would forget all about the fighting; that there is a lot of dirt in Mombasa County. I do not know what is happening to Gov. Joho. When you enter Mombasa, you are greeted by terrible waste that smells so badly. I had already talked about that but allow me to mention this in passing. If we had the light rail trains that operate from Mombasa-Malindi- Kwale, we would proceed in a way that is very modern and our people would enjoy. I had talked about urban planning but there is also urban land environment and climate change. There is a problem in so far as land matters are concerned in urban areas; we have cases where title deeds get lost or somebody “going away” with somebody else’s land. There is a problem. I always hear of so many cases and Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni, will tell you that he must have dealt with at least one land issue where there are two or three titles for the same parcel of land in an urban area like Nairobi. There must be a clear inventory of titles. I am happy with the work being done at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development with regards to the digitization of title deeds and the land register is going to help us to deal with matters of land. Pollution is a problem that we must deal with. Why can we not just create the Nairobi River Commission, just like they did for the Thames River in London? There The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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