Following heavy downpours in Athi River for the past 4 days, Athi River has burst its banks and it is almost immersing the old bridge along Mombasa road.
The bridge is posing a great danger to motorists who still insist on using it in an attempt to avoid the traffic jam on the new bridge.
The river has flooded the neighbouring regions and the newly constructed Standard Gauge Railway pillars are barely visible from the waters.
Athi river town is in a deplorable mess. The waters have eroded the murram roads rendering some impassible, like the main murram road leading to PCEA church.
This should be a wake-up call to the county government of Machakos to consider constructing drainage trenches along the roads.
In the proposed national budget that is now before parliament, a lot of money has been allocated to infrastructure and roads.
If the budget will be passed, the county officials should champion for the construction of drainage trenches to reduce the damage that the rains do on our roads.