People stuck on Nairobi-Nakuru highway for over 10 hours since last night.

Meria

Meria

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The highway has been converted into a parking lot with no movement of vehicles on both sides.
 
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The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) has alerted travellers planning to use the Nairobi-Nakuru highway to use diversions created to curb the traffic snarl-up that forced motorists to spend over 10 hours on the road.

In a statement on Saturday, September 3, KeNHA directed motorists to use the Flyover-Njabini-Olkalou-Lanet and Naivasha-Olkalou-Lanet routes.

Further, the highway authority ordered trucks to delay their travels until the situation eases at Gilgil.




KeNHA had notified the public that a section of the Northern Corridor, between Naivasha and Nakuru was experiencing congestion due to a traffic incident near the rail over road bridge between Gilgil turn-off and the weighbridge.


Police were deployed to man the situation and restore normalcy. Motorists were advised to exercise lane discipline and avoid overlapping.

Motorists were stuck in the snarl-up from 7 pm on Friday, September 2 up to 9am Saturday morning.

Road users reprimanded the trucks using the weighbridge and called on the police and road authorities to intervene.

"We have slept on the road from 8 pm Nairobi to Gilgil (currently). No movement. No idea what’s causing the gridlock," one Lilian Oranga lamented on her social media pages.

KeNHA cautioned motorists from overlapping and worsening the situation.
 
bigDog said:
The usual Kenya indiscipline of overlapping.
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I was there, did that, but out of desperation, kwanza ukiwaumeweka gedee ya kukufikisha kwenye unaenda tu. Hapo ndio nilijua uzuri wa 4x4 vehicles, ulikua unaona gari inatoka kwa barabara inachana mbuga na inaenda, sisi tunambiana, ukienda hio route unaacha sump huko
 
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