The County Government of Mombasa through the Department of Transport, Infrastructure and Public Works has termed as success a "Traffic Happy Hour" exercise that took place on Thursday, February 21.
While targeting motorists coming from Mombasa Island to Nyali, the department, with help of traffic officers and traffic marshals closed the incoming lane to Town from BP Shell Links - Fidel Odinga Road all the way to Coast General Hospital junction for 5 minutes.
Both lanes going to Nyali from Coast General to Abdalla Farsy Road Junction were then opened.
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"We carried out the Mombasa peak hour traffic decongestion plan of introducing the Happy Hour and the results were encouraging. We managed to greatly reduce the traffic jam along the pilot route," the department said in an update.
The exercise would start at 5:30pm or anytime between 5:30pm to 6:00pm depending with tailback in Bondeni and Saba Saba area.
The County Government's Traffic Unit said "this will help us lessen drastically the traffic jam once the happy hour is over as all 4 lanes will be available for a single direction traffic flow. Its only for 5 minutes, but it will clear the traffic backlog."
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