The Cabinet has approved a privately initiated investment proposal to develop a cable car system to address the human traffic challenges across the Likoni channel.
President Uhuru Kenyatta chaired a third cabinet meeting on Tuesday at State House Nairobi where he made the approval.
The project which will be sponsored by a Kenyan and Austrian company will be capable of moving 5,500 passengers per direction per hour (or 11,000 passengers per hour in both directions).
"It is estimated to cost Ksh4.1 billion and will be implemented as a 25 years Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) PPP," a communication from PSCU said after the meeting.
The construction of the Likoni cable cars express is set to begin before August this year according to the Kenya Ferry Services Managing Director Bakari Gowa.
Gowa indicated there was a land dispute over the landing of the cable cars which delayed the project.
With the help from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), KFS resolved the land dispute on the Likoni mainland channel.
“We are in the process of getting a title deed for the land where the two major masts will be built. The masts and the landing stations are the main installations in this project,” Gowa added early August.
According to him, the landing station will be built over the road and that engineers were waiting for a nod from the Cabinet before beginning the work in August.
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