Thika Town MP Patrick Wainaina and a team from KURA surveying the on-going construction of the Engen-Kiang'ombe-Kiganjo bypass last Weekend. [Photo: Thika Today]The government will spend Sh1.5 billion in opening the about 25-kilometre link roads within Thika Town Constituency in a bid to decongest the town and stimulate the region's economy.Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) Central Kenya Regional Manager Jacinta Mwangi revealed last weekend during a stakeholders meeting at a Thika hotel.Mwangi said that the project that has been divided into two phases will take about 24 months to complete.Phase I will cover 10Km from the Del Monte shop along the Nairobi-Nyeri Highway through Imani School, Del Monte factory, link up with Oloitiptip Road and join Thika Garissa Highway at the BAT junction.Phase II will see the upgrading of the BAT-Kiganjo to Kiganjo Corner 1, another link road starting from Kivulini (Kisii Estate) to cut across Kang’oki and then end at Kiganjo Corner 1 with another road starting at Engen Petrol Station via Kiang’ombe and to join the bypass from Corner One.There will also be a road stretch through Athena, behind Kiandutu and join Thika Superhighway near the former Castle Industry as well as a link road to the same coming from Broadway High School and through Kiandutu that will link up with the bypass near Athena Estate.Area MP Eng. Patrick Wainaina (Jungle) admitted that the proposed construction routes will help ease traffic on the existing Thika roads, which he said were already operating beyond capacity.Speaking after touring the link roads, the legislator said that traffic jams have become the order of the day in the town, especially during rush hours, costing the area’s economy billions of shilling annually in wasted time in traffic."These project will substantially and dramatically improve our road network system and traffic in the region because roads play a significant part in everyday life linking people with jobs and businesses with customers. We, therefore, thank the government for this initiative," Wainaina said.

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