This archive report was first published on 28 August 2019.
Kenya's busiest road, Thika Road, which handles approximately 200,000 vehicles daily, will experience heavy congestion this weekend due to a planned closure.
According to the Kenya Urban Authority (Kura), a section of Thika Road at Ruaraka Interchange will be partly closed on Saturday, August 31st and Sunday, September 1st, 2019, from 6 AM to 5 PM to enable installation of concrete beams for the Outer Ring Road junction overpass.
The contractor, Sinohydro Corporation of China, will be installing the concrete beams between August 31 and September 1, as part of the planned Outer Ring Road overpass project aimed at easing movement of traffic between the two major arteries in the east parts of the city.
Motorists heading out of Nairobi towards Thika and those joining or leaving Outer Ring Road will have to squeeze themselves on the two-lane Ruaraka overpass, causing significant disruption to the flow of traffic.
Published on August 28, 2019, at 15:32.
