Nairobi traffic jams will be a thing of the past if a proposal by President Uhuru Kenyatta comes to effect.
Mr Kenyatta has proposed a new model aimed at changing the commuter transport systemin the city for the better.
He has reached out to matatau owners, suggesting that routes within the city will reserved for high capacity commuter buses while the smaller matatus will be left to ferry long distance passengers away fron Nairobi.
This, according to the president, will help reduce the rampant traffic congestion in Nairobi.
“Traffic congestion has impacted negatively on the economic growth. We need to embrace the high capacity vehicles to operate within the city while low capacity to offer off the city transport,” President Kenyatta said in a speech read by Transport Secretary James Macharia.
He also put on the alert rogue matatu crews and added that careless driving and drugging passengers had tainted the industry’s image and should be changed.
“If the discipline of matatus improve the people will ditch their private vehicles,” read the speech.