{"id":6932,"date":"2019-12-03T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","slug":"bicycles-walking-ideal-for-kenyan-cities-un-habitat-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/03\/bicycles-walking-ideal-for-kenyan-cities-un-habitat-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles, Walking Ideal For Kenyan Cities \u2013 UN-Habitat Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Magdalene Wanja<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenyans\nhave been urged to embrace non-motorised traffic (NMT) as a way of reducing\ncongestion in cities and promoting a healthy population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\ninclude bicycles and walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking\nafter an event in Nairobi Monday to highlight the importance of safe riding,\nUN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif said many city dwellers\nwaste valuable time and energy stuck in traffic jams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\nnoted that this could be reduced if people embraced cycling to work as a form\nof transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Safe\nRiding<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms\nSharif urged the government to provide safe riding spaces, saying this will\nmake it easier for many people to reach their destinations in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/counties\/nairobi\/Kenyans-in-cities-urged-to-use-bicycles\/1954174-5370944-pkpht4\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Magdalene Wanja Kenyans have been urged to embrace non-motorised traffic (NMT) as a way of reducing congestion in cities and promoting a healthy population. These include bicycles and walking.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}