“The prospect of this dream becoming a reality in Kenya grew on Monday when Kenya Railways Corporation advertised a tender for a standard gauge line to run from Mombasa to Malaba. Such a line would shorten the train journey from Nairobi to Mombasa from 10 to only three hours.”
Call me a cynic, but don’t these high speed trains run on electricity? We don't have enough power to light our homes leave alone trains. Speeding through Kibera laini saba slum where an accident with result in rowdy youths uprooting the railway line! Whenever I see those old depilated RVR trains with myriad of technical problems, I can’t imagine the technology that comes with the high speed ones. Some one joked that engineering in our universities still based on 1985 syllabus, so there goes out technical support. Am I a case of a pessimists, who prevent the country from developing and then blame the government for lack of foresight? Or a case of a realistic Kenyan, ranting on an impossible dream. What happened to mass rapid transport light rail to for the city? Oh, it was an old forgotten dream. Can’t wait for another one of those dreams, this time the technocrats should try an airport in Thika. That I can dream.
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