The famous jacaranda trees that run along Kenyatta avenue down towards the Serena Hotels have been earmarked for removal.
The trees have been marked with letter X conspicuously in red reminiscent of a buildings set for demolition.
Reports indicate that the Kenya urban roads authority (KURA) is set to erect an overpass in the area, something that informed the decision to clear the path by cutting down the trees.
According to KURA, the new carriageway will be constructed along the Valley Road/Kenyatta Avenue; Ngong/Nyerere Road interchange and Upper Hill/Haile Selassie.
This new road is meant to link Ngong Road and Nairobi's Central Business District (CBD).
“The elevated carriage ways are two, one from Integrity Centre to Serena (Hotel) and another on the Milimani Close,” KURA resident engineer Benjamin Asin told the media.
He also revealed that the project was valued at Ksh2.9 billion and is set to begin in the coming year.
However, Kenyans have expressed concern over the rate at which the capital city is morphing into a concrete jungle.
"It's sad that NMS spent time and resources to make that place beautiful and now it will be ruined," one stated.
"Unless all roads within the CBD are expanded...expanding Kenyatta avenue won't reduce traffic in town so they should leave these beautiful trees alone! They already destroyed Waiyaki Way trees for another white elephant," another opined.
The jacaranda trees gave Kenyatta Avenue a beautiful blossoming look that turned the whole place into a sea of purple.
Ongoing road projects in Nairobi are set to change the city's landscape almost entirely, with trees making way for concrete pillars.
Nairobi's Waiyaki Way has been viewed by many as the future look, with all its famous trees uprooted from to make way for the Nairobi Expressway.
Environmentalist had to physically surround the famous fig tree along Waiyaki Way just to stop the contractors from chopping it down.
President Uhuru Kenyatta as forced to step in and assure Kenyans that the tree would be preserved.
