Boda bodas will be allowed on the Nairobi Expressway once completed, KeNHA Director General Engineer Peter Mundinia has now revealed.
Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, March 17, the KeNHA boss disclosed that everyone would be allowed to use the elevated road including motorcycles.
"Everyone will be allowed to use the Nairobi Expressway, bodaboda, trailers and all others can use it," he stated.
His sentiments signaled a departure from an earlier gazette notice which revealed that the expressway would only serve four classes of vehicles, from light vehicles with two axles to heavy vehicles with four or more axles.
Two-wheeled and three-wheeled vehicles such as motorcycles (boda bodas) and tuk-tuks were set to be prohibited from using the expressway.
Eng Mundinia further explained that there would be a special lane for boda bodas so as not to interfere with the vehicular traffic with systems set up to ensure compliance.
"Cameras will also be set up all over the road. If a bodaboda rider does not keep to his lane, he will be arrested and fined," he conveyed.
He, however, did not disclose the toll rates for the motorcycles on the road.
The KeNHA boss revealed that the set-up works should be over by December 2021 with an expected opening for public use by April 2022.
The Ksh62 billion road was gazetted as a toll road by Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development James Macharia in December 2020.
The expressway will have nine stations. Motorists will pay between Ksh100 and Ksh1,600 depending on the type of vehicle.
Interchanges will be built at Mlolongo, Syokimau, JKIA, Eastern Bypass, Southern Bypass, Capital Centre, Haile Selassie, Museum Hill, Westlands, and the Mainline station at the endpoint - St Mark's/Lion Place in Westlands.
There will be a roundabout at the junction of Enterprise Road and Mombasa Road, and another at the junction of James Gichuru and Red Hill Link Road.
The project will have also four pedestrian footbridges at Mlolongo, Imara Daima, General Motors, and St Mark's.
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