Look like they have extended the MGR line to airport?

[RV Pundit]

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I wonder if it goes all the way to the airport. That is good.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/business-news/article/2001396561/cs-macharia-launches-nairobi-commuter-rail-to-jkia-express-service

[Kadudu]

Be realistic. You want to travel to Dubai and have to go to CBD at Railway Central Station to board a train to go to JKIA. Am not sure how this will work in the day to day business.

[RV Pundit]

Yes this need an integrated approach - Railway - has to be functional all over - good start - but baby step. They need to invest real money so it become a real railways system. The whole Railway city need to be developed - with Nairobi Railway station - a proper train stations with shopping malls, eateries, hotels, name it - as envision in Railway City. And from there - you should have trains, buses, matatus, name it - radiating from it - and the Nairobi Railway station becoming Nairobi nerve center - not now where river road or nairobi downtown of moi avenue/tom-mboya is the never center. or worse Machakos country bus station in Gikomba. All these need to be move to Nairobi Railways - with proper modern bus, tram, and train station.

In short - they need to give Chinese 1B dollars - and get us a modern railway system in Nariobi - that is connected to all the main nodes. Anything else is a joke.

Be realistic. You want to travel to Dubai and have to go to CBD at Railway Central Station to board a train to go to JKIA. Am not sure how this will work in the day to day business.

[gout]

This commuter rail is just pimpers paradise for ufool. There is no MGR to the airport just a bus with a fancy name and a Kshs. 500 charge from Embakasi to the airport. 

Meanwhile Kenya Railways piles up the billion losses and it expects to compete with organic matatus. Snobbish middle class and the colonial technocrats need to pave feeder roads across urban estates; connecting the main roads and this will solve the traffic problem easily than this pimpers' paradise which we cannot sustainably run.

Kenya Railways Corporation's losses almost tripled from Sh8.47 billion in the previous financial year to Sh24.2 billion