Kenya’s Nairobi Expressway offers mixed lessons

Significance However, two years after it officially opened, the projects still divides opinions, between those who see it as a vital boost to Kenya’s national development, and those who instead highlight its socially divisive aspects and high costs. Impacts Kenya has hailed expanding usage as a success but this also means the Expressway risks becoming as congested as the roads it is replacing. As investor caution over major infrastructure projects grows, the cost burden will fall increasingly on national governments. Despite it winning awards for green mobility, environmental groups insist there is still significant scope to 'green' the project further.