Developing access roads in peri-urban areas goes a long way in decongesting a city’s human population and vehicular traffic. LAND PRICEMwende explains that in 2016, just before construction began on the Kona-Tala corridor (the road connecting Mombasa Road at Konza and Kagundo Road at Tala), a plot of land went for less than Sh100,000, but the road project changed everything. “In the past, the road was full of potholes and we would spend more than two hours travelling to Nairobi. He further notes that road crashes used to be frequent because the road was rough and narrow,“A day hardly passed without accidents, but today the number of the accidents has gone down with the new road,” he added. CONVENIENCEMotorists travelling from Thika Road to Mombasa can easily connect to Mombasa Road via the Eastern Bypass to the Tala-Konza corridor without driving through the traffic-prone Nairobi city centre.

Source: Daily Nation May 23, 2019 07:52 UTC