It’ll be great for business and public safety. I don’t see a downside to this.
Hii mambo ya kuambiwa “make left ukifika kwa jacaranda mbili” is such a primitive way of doing things.
I hope there is no cartel with vested interests on this issue because this is a game changer.
Maybe a few estates first… Ama some other town other than Nairobi
How would you implement a physical address system in Eastlands, most of the foot paths there don’t have names, so an address would go like unnumbered gate, along unnamed footpath, somewhere in ( insert name here )
The implementation of the system started over 10 years ago and most buildings in the city centre were allocated numbers and plates to be fixed on a designated part of the front wall. But as usual with Kenya, nothing is ever done conclusively and somewhere along the way the project stalled.
And there lies the problem. The project, noble as it was, started on the whims of an individual without the requisite supporting structures or legislation to ensure continuity in it’s implementation.
This should be a Ministry of Lands & Settlement and the Min. of Posta job. The effort behind it should be the kind we’ve expended on KRA related issues.
this one regardless of how noble it is, its one can of worms thats not worth thinking about leave alone opening, with the current mess in urban planning it would be practically impossible and a complete waste of time unless we opt to wipe out and rebuild more than 60% of Nairobi and its environs from ground up, by the way NRB is just used as a reference point, same applies to every other major/semi major town in KE (look at the current state of thika town and its environs, back in the 90s it was touted as one of the best planned upcoming towns with its properly planned parallel streets).
indulge me please, if you were to be tasked with the process of ensuring every house in nrb has a sensible physical address, where would you start? thats one project plan that i would pay just to have a look at
But it didn’t seem that hard to implement. Most buildings in the CBD and most of downtown Nairobi up to Kirinyaga rd have the addresses. You will find a plate with a number and street name. If buildings on the right have even numbers, the corresponding ones on the left were allocated odd ones. Very simple system. Just be keen enough and look around as you walk in town and you will see them.
i know about the number systems in the CDB, you seem to forget that the CBD represents less than 1% of the possible physical addresses, over 90% of the other physical address combinations lie in some “near informal settlements”, how would you implement that without pulling down all the structures and none existent infrastructure and building everything from ground up.
addressing is not meant for the CBD only, @Mathaais should be able to send a package via DHL to a physical address anywhere in the country and have delivered via courier to the recipients door step if this was to work, currently even if you gave the courier GPS coordinates to the recipients door stop they would still get lost