Kenyans Almost Dead on Worst Roads Getting New Highways: Freight
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Exasperated by a half hour of gridlock in downtown Nairobi last month, a bus driver jumped the median and headed toward oncoming traffic. As cars, trucks and hawkers jostled for space, he raced ahead, almost colliding with a motorcycle courier, before pulling back into his lane.
It’s a frequent scene in the Kenyan capital, where commuters compete with trucks ferrying cargo between East Africa’s biggest port of Mombasa, on the Kenyan coast, and landlocked neighbors Uganda and Rwanda, all on a road that runs through the middle of Nairobi.