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"content": "Executive Committee member to designate these parking areas and say “this parking area shall be used by motorcycles, tankers or matatus” . One of the biggest problems we have in this country is that, sometimes certain accidents occur because of obstructions on the roads; people crossing from one side to the other. Once this Bill is passed and assented to, it will do away with that. Secondly, this Bill will help the County Executive Committee Member in charge of transport, for instance, in Narok County, to say in Narok Town, we have 10,000 parking slots out of which, 5,000 are to be used by private vehicles and we will charge an extra amount of money per vehicle per day. One of the biggest problems we have in this country is where we are overestimating our collections. This will ensure that even if you give a percentage of about 30 per cent of the revenue collected, you can come up with realistic figures of how much money you will be collecting. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you go into our towns which were designed a long time ago, there is no inspection of the building codes. No one goes out there and says, for example, you have got this building and now the front of your building, we, as the county government, are the ones responsible for it. This, therefore, gives room for somebody with a big tanker to park it there and block the businesses in the building. So, even the commercial viability of each and every building is curtailed, since this blocks people from accessing the building and shopping there. This Bill will enable anyone who is constructing a commercial building, which is facing the highway, to turn that building the other side and create streets. It is only in this country where we do not consider street ways when most buildings are being constructed. The owner of the building can only accurately say, these two shops which face the highway will give me Kshs20,000 a month in rural areas, while in the urban areas Kshs100 per square foot, but any other spaces at the back, no one is able to tell, because when I come and I want to shop, I will only do so in the first two shops because getting parking might be problematic. Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the things that this Bill is going to help is that, the owners of those buildings will be given an opportunity by the regulations that will be developed by the County Executive Committee member in charge of transport to maintain those pavements. Then let us say, Joe will get into these issues of public private partnership, where the public is not losing any money. If anything, the owners of the building will maintain their pavements by using regulations which have been set instead of putting cabro or bitumen. If it is cabro, the entire streets in Narok town will have cabro, while if it is bitumen, then all the pavements will have bitumen. The other important thing in this Bill is that it will help this country to reduce the number of people who are killed when riding motorcycles in an area designated for vehicles. With the passage of this Bill, the County Executive Committee Member (CEC) of each county will designate areas where people with bicycles and motorcycles can ride them there. When vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles compete in one area because there is lack of law and order, the level of accidents will increase. I hope that the Members will support this Bill because it will encourage people in each town to see their commercial properties as equal. Instead of having illegal shanties The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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