The festivities have always come with drink and drive safely warnings aimed to curb accident numbers that rise during the period. However this years Christmas will come with a lot don’t do’s on the road that place trap for many Kenyans to be arrested in new transport reforms.
The National Transport and Safety Authority on Friday announced that a crackdown would commence on cars with foreign number plates.
In a statement, the authority noted ‘with concern’ the existence and use of unregistered vehicles.
“The vehicle bear plates inscribed as as X-GK, X-KA, X-Diplomat etc. The Authority has also noted an influx of vehicles bearing foreign number plates,” read the statement in part.
NTSA noted that vehicles bearing numbers like X-GK are not registered and are therefore operating illegally.
Operating a vehicle which is not dully register is an offence as it violates the provisions of section 6 (1A) of Traffic Act Cap.403, Laws of Kenya.
“Owners of these vehicles should ensure that they are dully registered before they are used on the road.
“We further wish to advise owners of foreign registered vehicles currently operating in the country to ensure that they have all the necessary documentations allowing the vehicles into the country,”
Police will be enforcing the law on all vehicles found to be operating without due registration or vehicles bearing foreign registration found to be in country without necessary documents.
Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia as well today unveiled a new plan that will see 14-seater matatus kicked out of roads in a period of two months.
The CS stated that the first consignment consisting of 11 trains and 64 high-capacity buses are set to hit the country in February 2019 to ease the congestion on Kenyan roads.
He further explained that the ubiquitous matatus were the major cause of congestion in the city making it necessary to efface them altogether.
“Plans are underway for the implementation of integrated train and high-capacity bus transport system in Kenya,” noted the CS.
He stated that the plan was slated to be rolled out in a period of three years and will be done in the three Kenyan cities; Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.
Reports indicated that the program might be already underway based on complaints from matatu operators whose license-renewal applications have been denied by the Transport Licensing Board (TLB).
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