Fairway traffic lights to reduce travel time

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Works at the Fairway junction have reached their final phase with the testing of the traffic lights that started Tuesday.

Travel time and cost for road users will significantly reduce once planned improvements are completed, Kampala Capital City Authority executive director, Jennifer Musisi said in a tweet.

The testing follows different works that have been done at the junction, including redirecting the power and network cables that were relocated together with the water cables.

 Signal controlled pedestrian crossings to ensure safety of pedestrians at the junctions. Courtesy photo

"It is the last phase the works at the Fairway junction and it has been hard work by the different parties and the result can be seen," said KCCA spokesperson Peter Kauju.

Kampala City Council Authority believes that they will be able to open the Fairway Road junction by the end of this month as works on testing the traffic lights, the final phase the junction has started.

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Testing the traffic lights, at the junction that has been developed under the Kampala Institutional and Infrastructure Development Project (KIIDP2) funded the International Development Agency (IDA) of the World Bank in a contract signed in December 2014.

"We had some delays but we are now on course. We are on the final phase of setting, timing and testing the lights to ensure that they work according to the plan," explained Peter Kauju as the works on the lights starts on Tuesday.

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The traffic lights are set to have censors that will automatically change the timing of the traffic flows depending on how mane vehicles are in queue to cross.

Because of the busy traffic at the junction, the lights have been fitted with lights for the pedestrian crossing traffic lights will also accommodate which will also pedestrian crossing lights that will be

And KCCA has appealed to the users to press them with care if they are to serve the purpose and also warned the motorists, most especially the bodabodas to obey them so that they help every person appreciate the use of roads.

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"We are going to have standby traffic and police men who will help us keep orders on irate road users," said Kauju.