I have made several passing comments on the back shattering, boob bouncing, bum bruising road we travel each day in a tuk-tuk !!
I'm not sure if pictures can convey the full horrors of it, but I'll add a few. The government of Kenya has a multi-billion contract or arrangement with the Chinese government for road building. There seems to be a special way to do this here; first you import many Chinese engineers and give them all identical wide brimmed straw hats. They order the stripping off of the old tarmac, thus revealing the murram underneath. Then you add water and allow traffic to use the stripped off road for weeks, months .... until it has worn into pits, ridges, corrugations ... and then, only then, do you dig it up, and divert the traffic to the edges which resemble ploughed fields !
Next, culverts and drains are concreted in here and there (needed as the road from town to Nyamasaria crosses a swamp). Add structures to eventually support bridges for new roads going who knows where.
Lastly, persuade people that something IS happening by building new stretches of road, complete with several layers of tarmac .... but only a few hundred yards of new road here and there (will they ever actually join up ?) And this process is going to be repeated for hundreds of miles, as far as the Uganda border. But in the meantime, some of the fuel lorries supplying Uganda and Rwanda are still using the road .... and the coaches, and buses, and other lorries, and cars, and piki-piki, and tuk-tuks .....
I must make an appointment with the osteopath for when I get back to straighten out and put back all the bones shaken out of line travelling this road daily ....
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