Advise me about the Namboole roundabout
EDITOR—Is the new junction on the Northern By-pass at Namboole a bridge, a roundabout or an inter-change with a flyover? Having lived and worked in relatively developed countries like South Africa, I recall such “snaked roads†are referred to as int
EDITOR—Is the new junction on the Northern By-pass at Namboole a bridge, a roundabout or an inter-change with a flyover? Having lived and worked in relatively developed countries like South Africa, I recall such “snaked roads†are referred to as inter-change (lower roads) and the upper roads referred to as “flyoversâ€.
These roads are constructed to ease the flow of traffic in congested areas. Cars move at fast speed to achieve this purpose. Any slow-moving vehicle causes a pile-up.
When a junior traffic officer once stopped me and advised me that by driving at 30km an hour on ‘a bridge’ I was breaking traffic rules, I apologised but vowed to seek clarification.
Has this billion-shilling junction at Namboole and eased the flow of traffic or worsened it?
Motorists prefer to use the old Namboole road by-pass up to Bweyogerere.
But most importantly, did the traffic laws set up years ago in Uganda consider modern times like super-highways? With four to six lanes, slow vehicles like trucks travel at 80km per hour in outer lanes. The vihicles in middle lanes travel at 120km per hour while the inner lanes are for faster vehicles travelling at 160km.
In Uganda, every visitor who is supposed to move slowly watching Uganda’s beautiful scenery travels at ‘flying speed’! There are internationally acceptable speeds in built-up areas and highways.
Why harass a motorist who has not fastened his safety belt when the traffic jam catches him from his compound in Namugongo up to the office?
Mohammed
Kampala
These roads are constructed to ease the flow of traffic in congested areas. Cars move at fast speed to achieve this purpose. Any slow-moving vehicle causes a pile-up.
When a junior traffic officer once stopped me and advised me that by driving at 30km an hour on ‘a bridge’ I was breaking traffic rules, I apologised but vowed to seek clarification.
Has this billion-shilling junction at Namboole and eased the flow of traffic or worsened it?
Motorists prefer to use the old Namboole road by-pass up to Bweyogerere.
But most importantly, did the traffic laws set up years ago in Uganda consider modern times like super-highways? With four to six lanes, slow vehicles like trucks travel at 80km per hour in outer lanes. The vihicles in middle lanes travel at 120km per hour while the inner lanes are for faster vehicles travelling at 160km.
In Uganda, every visitor who is supposed to move slowly watching Uganda’s beautiful scenery travels at ‘flying speed’! There are internationally acceptable speeds in built-up areas and highways.
Why harass a motorist who has not fastened his safety belt when the traffic jam catches him from his compound in Namugongo up to the office?
Mohammed
Kampala