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Description: Nairobi Expressway to come into use on Trial Basis in March 2022. JKIA to Westlands Highway, also known as the Nairobi Expressway, is a planned toll road in Kenya, connecting Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to the neighborhood of Rironi, in Kiambu County, along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway. Nairobi Expressway will start being used by motorists in March the Transport Cabinet Secretary in Kenya, James Macharia, has announced. The 27-kilometer expressway that stretches from Mlolongo through Uhuru Highway to the James Gichuru Road junction in Westlands will be used on a trial basis in March 2022, approximately three months earlier than anticipated. QUESTIONS: 👉 africanquestions@gmail.com SUBSCRIBE : 👉 goo.gl/jYw6so The 600 Million dollar project is set to dramatically change the city's skyline and is meant to ease traffic flows in and out of the centre of East Africa's main commercial hub. Kenyan officials described the expressway as an essential infrastructure project that will spur modernization. The partially elevated highway was proposed about 10 years ago, but delays meant it was only launched in October by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Yet the speed of its construction is leaving many Nairobians surprised. It already looks like a giant gash through the city and the constant hum of construction noise, trucks whipping up dust and beeping car horns all add to the confusion. It is being financed and constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation - and the Chinese firm will operate the highway under a public-private partnership. This means the four- and six-lane dual carriageway, with 10 interchanges along the route, will not be free to use - drivers will have to reportedly pay a toll of between 2 and 3 dollars. The aim of improving Nairobi's roads seems like a laudable cause, but some argue it could actually worsen the city's traffic problems and the huge social and economic divide. ......................................................... Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leon, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan,Tanzania,Togo,Tunisia,Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe