Passengers using Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway trains will from this month not be allowed to pay cash to travel. Since its launch in 2017, SGR has been using a payment system that involves mobile money and cash. The expansion will significantly ease traffic delays that characterize the road network and also promotes railway usage further to the public. The project will involve the construction of a new line from the Syokimau terminus over Mombasa road right into the airport. Before the SGR then no major investment had been done in the country in the railway network for a whole 122 years.

Source: The Star August 02, 2021 09:24 UTC