{"id":8444,"date":"2020-03-04T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","slug":"conservationists-fault-nairobi-expressway-green-space-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/04\/conservationists-fault-nairobi-expressway-green-space-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservationists Fault Nairobi Expressway \u2018Green Space\u2019 Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Magdalene Wanja<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservationists have demanded openness from the government as plans to construct the multi-billion shilling expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Westlands in Nairobi starts afresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Resources Institute vice-president and regional director for Africa Wanjira Mathai called on the government to engage the public \u201cwho will be more affected by the project\u201d that is set to cost Sh59 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDecongesting the city is not always about constructing more highways but better management on the flow of traffic,\u201d said Ms Mathai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the environmental impact assessment published last week, the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has ordered the Chinese contractor to plant trees in all affected public places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include Nairobi National Park, Uhuru Park and the Arboretum which the 27-kilometre highway is set to cross. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/Conservationists-fault-Nairobi-expressway--green-space--plan\/539546-5477406-ve9ftsz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Magdalene Wanja Conservationists have demanded openness from the government as plans to construct the multi-billion shilling expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Westlands in Nairobi starts afresh.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8445,"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-8444","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\/8444","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=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}