Muraya, Thank your God it was not at night because add to all that lack of lights and signage, and vicious car jackers prowling the Forest road/Ngara road/parklands areas ready to pounce. I was once attacked while in a Jam on forest road and stabbed, almost shot, so if you can keep away from these areas unless absolutely necessary the better. the Dr who treated me at Aga Khan casually told me that they receive on average 3 stab/gun shot victims a week, all dead! Andrew On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:21 PM, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com>wrote:
Gakiria,
Today, I was headed to a location in Parklands that I used to know how to get to.
After closed roads and diversions I could not understand, I found myself on Thika Road.
To avoid getting lost and somehow ending up in Garissa County I saw another diversion to Kiambu Rd that got me back to Nairobi County.
Did not bother going back to look for Parklands.
:)
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Gakiria <gakiria@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Grace,
Thank you very much for facilitating this. Allow me to share one of my many not-so-pleasant experiences on Thika road (and its feeder roads), hoping something will be done about this.
My office is in KIE, off Muranga road at the Desai road junction next to Nbi Gymkhana Club. I was on Mombasa road this morning and decided to get to the office via forest road to avoid the madness at the Fig Tree junction along Ngara road.
To my shock,the turn off from Forest road into Desai road has been blocked off (it was there last week). I was thus forced to drive all the way past the flyover at Pangani, double back through through Ring Road and juja road into Muranga road , to try and access Desai road from the opposite end. Another shocker, there is no turn off either into KIE from muranga road (approaching from the Pangani side)!
What is there is a small gap in the huge concrete blocks seperating traffic from and to the city centre, through which vehicles make an illegal U-Turn, while avoiding on-coming traffic from the city centre. I have had 3 accidents at that spot in the last 5 months and am not even a daily user of that road.
My question to you Engineer Kidenda is, how are those of us who work along desai road (especially on the Nbi Gymkhana side) expected to navigate back into the city center or to cross over to the other section of Desai road towards kariakor roundabout, because both exit and entry points have been blocked? We have been reduced to playing Russian roulette every evening, with matatus to githurai/Dandora etc whizzing past at breakneck speed.
And that is not even 1% of my near-death experiences..
Andrew
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>wrote:
Listers****
Finally i have gone through to Eng. Kidenda. ****
My request to him was that he gives us some two days to allow him field questions from listers. ****
Unfortunately he says he is very busy but provided us with a general email (dg@kenha.co.ke) where you can direct all your questions on Thika Road. Someone is specifically tasked with handling all queries and for example if they are questions that would require input from others, then they will be directed to the relevant people for responses. He will respond to those that directly relate to his duties. ****
May I request that if you do a query through the list, to also include dg@kenha.co.ke in order to get a response.
Rgds****
Grace****
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