These road works which have been going on since the dinosaurs died (or were beamed to a parallel universe where they have great intellectual discourse) is driving me crazy! First there's the dust. I feel like a miner. Can I get workmen's compensation due to the dust inhalation? (apparently, the tax payer's money that was to be spent on the Ocampo 6 was to be considered under this very broad bracket). It get's so bad that if you stand in one spot for 15 minutes the dust they wash off you would be enough to germinate a seed in!
Then there's the traffic. Jana I was caught up in the black hole previously known as Forest Road for over an hour! And of course, Kenyans being Kenyans had figured out a way of creating 5 lanes that were miraculously meant to funnel into 1! And given that situation, everybody's an expert! "We nani! Rudi nyuma ndiyo tuingie!", "Si usonge mbele? Hii nafasi yote umewachia nani?!" "Kama hujui kuendesha si ungewathca gari home?!"
Then the roads change daily. That you've used one route in the morning is no surety that it will be there in the afternoon. It won't just be closed, it will have been dug out by those big machines. It will be up to you to figure out how to go where it is you were going, even taking a 10km detour to find yourself on the other end of the crater!
And pedestrians are not spared either. Other than the fact that you risk life and limb walking along for lack of a side walk of any kind to speak of, there are other hazards. My friend spent the night at her sister's place in Kasarani. In the morning when she left, she couldn't find a bus stop!
Have an orderly day won't you!!
2 comments:
This Thika Road should end already. I can only imagine how it will be when its done.
True. But it's such a nightmare! This past weekend 2 cars dissapeared into huge holes huko near Ojijo/Forest road what was once a roundabout. The rain had covered the holes and the poor guys went in head first. It's a hazard.
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