[kictanet] ICT Value to the Counties

Wed Apr 3 09:13:07 EAT 2013

Hi Dennis,

I object to the insinuation that the traffic lights are just like the cops and as the official representative of the voiceless traffic lights I insist that you retract that statement otherwise we shall have no alternative but to go to the supreme court to have you censored.

The traffic lights actually take the traffic flow differences into consideration and change accordingly based on the time of day and day of the week which is why when it gets to 9 o'clock they switch to flashing amber, at least the ones near NSSF Towers do.  

The lights follow the program provided to them unfortunately the cops have not been issued with one and instead wait for Maina Kageni seated in the studio miles away from the problem to call their boss on his Hot line who then uses that as a presidential directive and sends down the same to the cops on the ground. 

Transcript:  

Driver Matatu 23:  Kageni hi jam hapa museum hill ni noma haijasonga for almost 1 hour

Maina Kageni:  Let me call the traffic commandant on his mobile and ask him to do something, keep listening to ******** FM

Traffic Commandant:  Wewe Wagombe fungulia hizi kari za kutoka Kangemi wame pikia Maina Kageni na sitaki PRO akinipigia makelele

Wagombe:  Dio afande wacha ni wa fungulie, tafadhali pigia Wafula pale University Way na Wasipukulu Kenyatta Avenue pia wafungiulie kwa, sina credit na sijalipa Okoa Jahazi ya jana

What is so peculiar about Kenya that we cannot install and config traffic lights yet we claim to be the worlds technology solution destination?  

Regards

PS.  Just for your information, we did a project on traffic lights for the science congress in 1986 when I was in high school.

Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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 From: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com>
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I once watched the following: Traffic was flowing around the GPO Round About. Two traffic cops had in two vehicles came by, and each stopped the lanes to cut across the roundabout, in disregard of the lights. They then immediately left, leaving a semi grid-lock on the same. 

Meanwhile, traffic lights suffer from a problem cops like ignoring. There's much more traffic coming from Mombasa Road, Langata Road, Bunyala Road (South B) than from Ngong Road into town in the mornings. Traffic lights and cop ignore this situation, and treat all junctions with equal priority, or favor out of town traffic in the morning. 

This will see traffic on Mombasa Road starting at Haile Selassie - Uhuru Highway roundabout all the way to Parkside Towers (Airtel). Traffic on Ngong Toad will meanwhile be up to the Railways headquarters. 

Also, there's the issue where a series of lights in a series of roundabouts will not be in sync. So you basically move in bits down Kenyatta Avenue from one junction to the next. The lights should operate such that all lights down the street turn green - allowing express movement up/down or across the street. 

Remember, traffic is caused when more vehicles get to a certain point than are leaving the same point per unit time. 

On 2 April 2013 11:42, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) <nmutungu at gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting! The counties have to come up with, among other things, policy for citizen participation. I hope they employ ICT/ Internet. 
>Looking forward to counties with interactive leadership, counties publishing their list of assets and liabilities at almost no cost on the Internet, counties using ICT to improve markets for their local products....and yes, to less congestion in NCC!
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>2013/4/2 robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
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>Hi,
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>>I was hoping that now that we have a new dispensation that traffic flow on Uhuru Highway will have been handed back to the traffic lights unfortunately this is not the case and the police keep competing with the traffic lights.
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>>Can we take this up as the first campaign by KICTANET to show that we are truly committed to seeing technology applied to improving the lives of Kenyans beginning with the long suffering drivers in the County of Nairobi?
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>>Regards
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>>Robert Yawe
>>KAY System Technologies Ltd
>>Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>>Kenya
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>>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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