The Sh9.6 billion Eldoret Southern Bypass has been completed and is set for commissioning.
Sh5.6 billion was spent on construction, Sh4 billion was spent to compensate about 1,000 families displaced by the bypass.
It has three overpass interlinks at Ngeria, Kapseret and at Leseru.
Governor Jackson Mandago welcomed completion of the project.
“The project is a milestone for Eldoret as we have been experiencing serious congestion and traffic jams for many years, so business has been slowed," Mandago said.
Narrow Uganda Road is the main road in Eldoret and its width worsens the congestion because it’s used by long-distance lorries moving goods from the Port of Mombasa to other countries in the Great Lakes region.
The new bypass will allow diversion of all long-distance trucks, reducing traffic jams in Eldoret by more than 70 per cent, planners said.
Hio jam si mbaya, kuna back routes but that stretch to kitale (its not even a road) needs to be expanded to a standard highway breadth…its always a sport overtaking esp with large capacity buses and transit lorries