•The expressway seeks to decongest Mombasa Road, Uhuru Highway and Waiyaki Way but has experienced traffic since it was opened to the public.
•The road has 11 tolling stations, 54 toll plazas, and 54 cameras along the 27km expressway, with 126 cameras inside the toll plazas.
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At least 10 million vehicles have used the JNairobi Expressway since it was launched in July 2022.
Moja Expressway CEO Steve Zhao on Tuesday revealed that the record was a milestone achieved.
"The expressway which was launched on July 31 2022 has since seen 10 million unique users to date," he said.
Zhao revealed that on average, about 50,000 vehicles make use of the Nairobi Expressway in a day with this being a 5-time increment from the beginning of the trial operations on May 14, 2022.
He was speaking at stakeholders and officials meeting at the Westlands toll station to celebrate the milestones the Nairobi Expressway has made.
Among the stakeholders present were officials from the Ministry of Roads and Transport, KeNHA, Moja Expressway Company and China Roads and Bridges Cooperation.
PS State department for Roads Joseph Mbugua was the chief guest.
The Sh87 billion Expressway was launched by retired President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2022.
The Expressway seeks to decongest Mombasa Road, Uhuru Highway and Waiyaki Way.
The road has 11 tolling stations, 54 toll plazas and 54 cameras along the 27km expressway, with 126 cameras inside the toll plazas.
The road is monitored with recordings being done at 30-minute intervals.
There’s a smart monitoring system that detects congestion, spillage, vehicle reversals, pedestrian crossing and emergencies.
The dual carriageway has 11 interchanges at Mlolongo, Standard Gauge Railway, JKIA, Eastern Bypass, Southern Bypass, Capital Centre, Haile Selassie Avenue, Museum Hill, Westlands, and James Gichuru Road.
The expressway, with 18.2km on the ground and 8.9km elevated, is a class A, four-lane dual carriageway with a design speed of 80km per hour.