THE STANDARD
OPINION
When Benjamin Franklin, one of the American founding fathers said the famous words, ‘time is money’ he obviously wasn’t thinking of Kenya. Yet those words ring true in our country. Two years ago, the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority ranked Nairobi as the fourth most congested city in the world. The time wasted in these traffic jams bleeds the city a whopping Sh100 billion every year. Indeed, lost time equals lost money.
A time has come for us to realise that our greatest resource as a nation is not our tourism or our world-famous tea. Rather, our greatest resource is time. When we waste it, we literally lose money. Time management starts at the individual level and extends to the national level. Individually, we need to remember that time is life’s great equaliser.
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.