Bomet: Bomet County Department of Urban Planning and the local Kenya Police Traffic Department will collaborate to enforce new directives aimed at ensuring that traffic flows smoothly in Bomet Municipality especially along the busy Kaplong-Bomet-Narok highway.
According to Kenya News Agency, the two departments will collaborate to ensure traffic flows uninterrupted by banning public service vehicles and matatus from dropping or picking passengers along the highway. Due to incessant traffic snarl-ups in Bomet town, the County Government of Bomet has set out to bring order in the transport sector, citing the matatu menace as the main cause of traffic jams in the town.
The Bomet Municipality management has asked all matatus and transport saccos to henceforth ensure that passengers are picked at designated bus parks and stages in a move also aimed at boosting revenue collection. Bomet Municipality Manager, Davis Lang'at, announced that there shall only be one matatu exit point from Bomet stage, which will be the gate next to the National Bank branch, facing Radiant Supermarket. The two gates along the highway will be entry points for all PSVs seeking to pick or drop passengers in Bomet.
The move is meant to decongest the main highway, which has been experiencing endless traffic jams. Additionally, the municipality has centralized all pickup and drop-off points of passengers for buses, minibuses, and cars at the main stage to bring some order within the town. Vehicles picking up and dropping off passengers in areas outside the stage will be impounded and owners heavily penalized.