Friday, April 11, 2014

Dear World Bank is this the multi billion dollar road you meant?

For months now, people living on morogoro road have been complaining about the supposingly amazing road project currently ongoing.  It hasn't been completed but already it seem to be the most useless, money wasting project ever done. 
First, the biggest and probably most valid complaint is the size of the road. Lets just put it this way... if you meet a semi trailer on the road, you have to slow down, go right by the edge of the road, honk at the semi trailer and hope the next bus stop is close by with no bus so you pass the slow moving semi trailer. Its even more abhorrent during the rain with water splashing everywhere. ..unable to go beyond 30km/hr because the next patch of the road might be full of water and you skid and hit the car next to you....if you are even going to be beside. Or and even better still... the people going the opposite direction to you...can splash you water which is the most dangerous thing ever. I don't think I have ever seen that on a multi BILLION USD road ever.
Of course I have also heard that the original plans were greatly altered because some government official had given a building permit to a hotel 5 years ago and now they can't pay them damages to break their hotel.  Mind you this project has been in the works for 10 years.  I am not sure if it's incompetency or greed...either way, we are missing two extra lanes that would've made a helluva of difference. ..shame on Magufuli for agreeing to this and Stratbag for the worst road constructed ever