The opening of the Southern bypass was scheduled to be opened today have been postponed to Sunday due to failure to meet the deadline as grading works have been hampered by bad weather and is only 80 per cent complete.
Heavy commercial trucks will from Sunday not be allowed to use Mombasa Road - Uhuru Highway - Waiyaki Way stretch and will instead divert to the Southern bypass providing a huge relief for city motorists.
Nairobi governor Evans Kidero has announced that the Southern bypass, which was closed last weekend to allow for accelerated grading of an unfinished section, would be opened
then.
It is estimated that the heavy commercial trucks and other traffic not destined for the city centre accounts for 30 per cent of the traffic on this highway stretch.
