Modify Kafue and Kabwe Roundabouts to Decongest Lusaka CBDs!

1. I have failed to understand where the changes are

2. Mthoniswa Banda have you just awoke from a coma? …surely you do understand that the Indians are undertaking works funded by Indian Exim Bank via a $250 million loan which our useless govt has contributed only 15 million.

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3. Zambian city planners a k a city engineers a k a as Mayor’s civic fathers etc.
   You had 40 years to plan for this but just watched with a Fikaisova mentality. Now you are fighting to put out a fire that you could have prevented.

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4. Oh look, CBD, stands for Central business district?!!!

   I thought, in no…Zambians in cars driving around rounds outs high on Cannabidiol (CBD) cannabis edibles……..!

   Even without drugs Zambians are the worst worldwide.

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5. Good idea. What would ease things even further would be to divert to Lumumba road, all traffic approaching from Kafue intending to go beyond Lusaka. If final destination is Lusaka, this traffic could turn right – way before the Lumumba Road divertion junction, or at the Lumumba Road junction itself, avoiding Kafue roundabout altògether.

   All traffic approaching Kafue roundabout on Independence Ave., Road, to keep left, or proceed straight but no right turning into Cairo Road. Therefore, the road commencing at Kafue roundabout heading out to Kafue, would be one way up to the Lumumba Road junction point. Do the same for Kabwe roundabout.

   Remove all traffic from Cairo Road – Make Cairo Road a ‘pedestrian only’ promenade in brick paving with current trees retained. Add box plants…

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6. Good idea. What would ease things even further would be to divert to Lumumba road, all traffic approaching from Kafue intending to go beyond Lusaka. If final destination is Lusaka, this traffic could turn right – way before the Lumumba Road divertion junction, or at the Lumumba Road junction itself, avoiding Kafue roundabout altògether.

   All traffic approaching Kafue roundabout on Independence Road, to keep left, or proceed straight but no right turning into Cairo Road. Therefore the road commencing at Kafue roundabout heading out to Kafue, would be one way to the Lumumba Road junction point.

   Remove all traffic from Cairo Road – Make Cairo Road a ‘pedestrian only’ promenade in brick paving with current trees retained. Add box plants for aesthetics, and dot benches here and…

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   …and there for people to sit on. It will take clever planning but this would decongest the high street of unwarranted traffic and reduce air pollution created by car fumes.

8. You can’t please some sadists

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9. Lane discipline and keeping to the rules of driving on public roads helps move vehicles along to their destinations.

   This is definitely usually lacking in Lusaka and Kitwe, not knowing how it is in other towns.

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10. Too late.
    Ndalama Zasila!
    Some of the works will end up like Lewanika University somewhere where someone has gone to buy some weak souls … Kikikiki
    Meanwhile, some people attacked a funeral procession at Mutumbi Cemetery breaking people’s cars and inflicting grievous body harm on some. I was shocked to witness this unruly behavior. While the road works are welcome, no one will live to enjoy these if some think they have the license to beat others. The next terrible thing you don’t want to see is citizens taking the law into their hands and burning unruly PF cadres the way they did with suspected gassers! Please can the leaders in PF show leadership for once and understand that if violence is the route they want to take, they will be the biggest losers! Don’t push your luck too…

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11. Instead of coming up with such progressive ideas as how to improve traffic flow in lusaka the mayor is busy renaming roads.

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12. Indeed Kaiser, we have many sadists in Zambia! Those who were there at independence will totally agree with me that the development we have seen under apf was supposed to have taken place under unip between 1964 and 1990/91!The other favourite of the sadists is that they hate history.These armchair critics ignore the economic level at which apf took over the government.It was completely at zero! He took the strategist MCS to ignite what we are seeing,sadly the sadists condemned the infrastructure development and publicly asked apf if people will be eating roads!But today they are now inspectors of roads being constructed! The new roads have even made their campaign trails easier but have expressed appreciation so far but incito kulandafye ifya corruption! Shameful morons

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13. Let us just get a policy where commutting people , whether private or public will park in outskirts of town then we have some sort of city shuttle, that will limit traffic inflow especially in CBD ,some can walk it’s exercise, this will also resuscitate the downtown /second class* areas .

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14. I don’t think this will solve the problem. Forcing traffic that wants to go one way to turn another will force drivers to U-turn thereby creating more congestion somewhere else. Rather keep it simple. Roundabouts are only good to a certain volume of traffic after which they need to be replaced with a conventional junction and traffic lights. Look at Independence Ave and Church Road. It’s busy but not a nightmare. Even more ideally there could be slip roads for motorists to turn left. Gaborone removed many of its roundabouts years ago as the city grew. Lusaka should do the same.

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15. To decongest lusaka roads is simple. First stop all the traffic police to be putting road blocks all over the city and just control traffic where necessary. This will first allow the traffic to move smoothly and second people will have more money in their pockets. 50 % of self inflicted traffic jams will disappear.

16. Spuds roundabouts are only good for slowing down a fast road. Cairo Road doesn’t need roundabouts. Its got traffic lights or robots that serve the purpose.

17. You have to build the biggest flyover bridge over cairo road over both lanes from North to South. If you’re driving from North end and want to go downtown, you should just go kulula straight over the bridge to the south end of cairo road.

18. Building tunnels is another option. We have experience in digging, we have been digging in CB for over a century.

19. The mayor is just saying wa wa wa.What can you expect?

20. Total failure in all sectors actually but very competent at arguments like that former Political adviser chap

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