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"content": "instance, the road that will connect to Lamu, which is the future seaport and Mombasa. They are classified as important international roads of Class A. Class B are roads forming important national routes, linking national trading or economic hubs, county headquarters and other nationally important centres to the national capital or Class A roads. It includes roads that link our headquarters, one county to another, say, from Kajiado to Nairobi, Nairobi to Kiambu, Nairobi to Garissa and Garissa to Mandera. If such roads do not fit within Class S and Class A, they will be classified under Class B roads. We have Class H roads that are basically urban major arterials highways meant to carry huge traffic from separate parts of the city. For example, Jogoo Road majorly links parts of the city centre to parts of the Eastlands. Ngong Road links Ngong Town and parts of Nairobi and from the Central Business District (CBD) to other parts of the town and so forth. Other examples are roads that go to places like Parklands, not to mention the highway that goes to Westlands and so forth. We have Class J roads that are minor arterials meant to carry traffic to different zones of urban areas. They include the principal urban bus routes and roads within economic zones that are planned by the national Government and those within the State Houses and Lodges. They are required to provide mobility as opposed to access. For example, we have roads from Eldoret Town to the State Lodge in Eldoret that fall within Class J roads. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also have Class C roads, which form important regional routes linking county headquarters or other regional important centres, constituencies headquarters, municipal or town council centres and other towns to each other and to Class A, B, H or J roads. They are required to connect regional and local traffic and so forth. All these classes of roads, that is, Classes S, A, B, H, J and C are national roads. We now have a clear definition, although it is not as clear as one would think, because it will require a lot of examples to compare this and that. However, national roads are falling within Classes S and C. Then we have Part B of the First Schedule, where we have the county roads, that is, Class D roads. Then we have Classes E, F, G, K, L, M, N and P roads. So, those who say that counties have no roads to construct will now see that the classification includes roads that link farms to markets. These are very important roads. They include minor feeder roads linking markets to each other and those that link shopping centres to each other. In this country we have small towns like Kapsowar. If you come from Embobut, where I come from, you will know that Kapsowar is a town. But by proper classification in law, Marimanti does not qualify to be called a town. Marimanti is just a shopping centre."
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