Maj-Gen Mohammed Badi, Director-General of Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) fielded questions from the public via Sunday Nation.
The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is such a brilliant idea. However, people have invested in buses and matatus yet the government also talks of acquiring its own buses. Ho
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Motorists on a Colossal Traffic Jam Along Busy Uhuru Highway in Nairobi
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Public Transport stakeholders want the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) under General Mohamed Badi to double the parking fee of private vehicles rather than ban matatus in Nairobi CBD.
Matatu Welfare Association (MWA) chairperson Dickson Mbugua argued that private vehicles were the cause of congestion in the city. He lamented that the cars carried fewer passengers as compared to matatus. Increasing the parking fees from Ksh 200 to Ksh 400 will thus discourage private motorists from parking or driving their vehicles to CBD, Mbugua proposed.
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) took over the collection of revenue from City Hall after former governor Mike Sonko signed the deed of transfer and shared power with the national government. KRA collects parking fees on behalf of NMS with motorists paying through unified payment short code (USSD) 647#.
Relocating matatus from Nairobi CBD a double-edged sword
Friday January 01 2021
From the look of things the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is hell-bent on relocating the essential commuter public service vehicles from the central business district (CBD).
The NMS says the move is part of its plan to decongest traffic in the capital city.
But this plan is lopsided and not backed by any facts about transport in Nairobi.
Currently we have over 700,000 motor vehicles driven on the city’s roads daily.
Out of these only 18,000 are public service vehicles (PSVs) enabling various Kenyans access their economic activities places.
PSVs are the mass movers of 80 percent of Kenyans going to their working places daily.