Plans are underway to convert the Globe Cinema roundabout into a bus terminus in a bid to relocate matatus from the central business district (CBD).
The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) in conjunction with the Lands ministry are completing land evaluation to convert the roundabout into a bus p
Matatus are parked at the Globe Cinema roundabout on August 9, 2018. PHOTO | FILE
The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has identified the Globe Cinema roundabout for use as a bus terminus to aid in relocating matatus from the central business district (CBD).
The land has been acting as a holding zone for public service vehicles from the Mt Kenya and North Rift regions.
Matatus plying Juja Road and the Thika superhighway will use the new terminus and will join six others already under construction Green Park, Desai Road, Park Road, Fig Tree, Muthurwa, and Bunyala/Workshop roads.
Last October, City Hall announced that public service vehicles (PSVs) using the Khoja/Old Mutual terminus were to be relocated to the Globe roundabout. The matatus were blamed for traffic snarl-ups, as were the vehicles accessing the city centre through the Globe flyover.
Kenya s First Woman to Own & Drive a Car
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The general adage since the years of yore holds that women must always fight twice as hard as men to make a mark in the world.
Truth is that women have left lasting footprints on the social and economic fabric of our human existence, footprints that have remained visible for many years. Women have many enviable firsts.
In Kenya for instance, the first African woman to own and drive a car, as told by author Mike Eldon, was his mother-in-law, Marjorie Kimenyi.
Kimenyi descended from a long line of high achievers and according to a book,