To rehabilitate rural access roads
The aim is to construct 1,950 km of new roads by 2012 by developing and effectively managing a robust road system that will require minimum maintenance. This strategy will involve carrying out 20 feasibility and design studies; provision of 1,950 km of roads to all major production, marketing and consumption areas; provision of legal framework to repossess illegally acquired land on road reserves, and the expansion of 1,103 km of road width to provide for non-motorised-transport (NMT).
Under the road transport policy, road concessioning will be introduced on Nairobi bypasses and major roads, including sections of the Northern Corridor route (Mombasa-Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit-Eldoret-Malaba and Mau Summit-Kisumu-Busia); Machakos turnoff-Nairobi-Rironi (and including the Uhuru Highway); Waiyaki Way; and Westlands to Rironi sections. It is expected that at least 3 concessions will be accomplished by 2012.