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    "content": "institutions that are in charge of construction of roads will not oversight themselves; we will have institutions like this PRSB whose responsibility will be to ensure that standard roads and bridges are established in the country. This will ensure that the standards of construction and maintenance are provided; that forms of works and consultants are given the standards they are supposed to adhere to. They will provide the sizes, types and usage of vehicles on roads including maximum vehicle and axel load limits for purposes of protecting our roads from damage. They will deal with standards for training of human resource required for development and rehabilitation of roads. That means that they will even check whether the universities which are training our civil engineers are using the required curriculum and giving them the necessary knowledge that will ensure that we construct standard roads. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this body is critical in the sense that their work will not be construction itself. They will be the persons who will operate between the authorities that are in charge of construction plus their contractors and the citizens of the Republic of Kenya, to ensure that standards are adhered to. The standards are provided, but the supervision to ensure that those standards are achieved is not. In the first instance, a roads board, for example, the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) or the Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA) will use those standards to ensure that the contractors perform their work. However, the PRSB will now oversee the roads agencies to ensure that they have adhered to those standards. By the time it is coming to Parliament or going to the citizens of Kenya, we believe that the necessary standards for constructing roads in the Republic will have been achieved. In Part Three, this Bill provides for the classification of roads and divides the responsibility to different agencies based on that classification. Roads are classified into various classes as you will see in the First Schedule. The First Schedule of the Bill provides for the various classes of roads. Class S of the roads are roads that are connecting two or more cities and are meant to carry, safely, a large volume of traffic of the highest legal speed of operation. If the highest speed will be 120 Kilometers per hour, you are allowed to drive at that speed because it is a highway. It is linking a city to a city and has a high traffic. One would believe that even the road linking Nairobi and Thika would qualify for Class S roads. I hope that in future we should be able to build the same roads between here and Nakuru; Eldoret and Kampala. We will, therefore, have that classification for the road from Mombasa to Nairobi and Kampala, or up to whatever other country, like Congo. Class A roads are those that form strategic routes and corridors connecting international boundaries or identified immigration entry and exit points and international terminals, such as international airports or sea ports. Therefore, roads that go to the airports, like the one that goes to Wilson Airport, are classified under Class A roads. Wilson Airport is an international Airport because people fly in from Somalia and other places."
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