Mombasa Road Traffic Snarl-Up: Why Monday Evening ‘Was A Mess’

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 18- Police say the heavy traffic jam witnessed along Mombasa Road on Monday evening was caused by ongoing construction.

The contractor was raising a beam on the road near Mlolongo and had to close a section of the busy highway.

This forced a three-way highway to be scaled down to one.

As a result, this caused a heavy traffic jam from the City Cabanas area to Mlolongo for hours.

Motorists using a section of Mombasa Road spent almost seven hours at a stretch between City Cabanas and Mlolongo.

Further, police have revealed that a sewerage system burst along Manyanja Road affecting traffic flow on Outer Ring which snaked to Mombasa Road and Jogoo Road, complicating an already dire situation.

Some motorists arrived at their destinations on Tuesday morning.