Nairobi Western Bypass Highway
Nairobi Western Bypass Highway is a road in Kenya. It connects the town of Kikuyu to the town of Ruaka, both in Kiambu County.
Location
This road starts in Gitaru, in near the town of Kikuyu, approximately, north-west of the central business district of Nairobi. The road travels in a general north-easterly direction through Wangige, Kihara, Ndenderu, Rumingi, to end at Ruaka, a total distance of about. At Ruaka, it will connect to the Nairobi Northern Bypass Highway through Limuru Road.Overview
This road is one of the four bypass highways built to direct motorized traffic away from the central business district of the city of Nairobi, to alleviate the perennial traffic jams on the city streets. The bypass highways include Nairobi Northern Bypass Highway Nairobi Eastern Bypass Highway Nairobi Southern Bypass Highway and Nairobi Western Bypass Highway. It is one of these four bypass roads that form a ring-road around the city.The Western Bypass development also involves the construction of of service roads and walkways measuring on both sides of the highway. A total of six interchanges and overpasses will be built, one each in the six townships where the four-lane dual carriageway is planned to pass. This way, the traffic on the highway will not interfere or be impeded by the surface traffic in the urban centers.