Share the Road Quiz

   Share the Road:
Road Design and 10% Finance for
  Safety, Sustainability and Accessibility

 Share the Road: Website and UNON Announcement Response

Since the launch of the Share the Road website in May 2009 and the posting of the ‘Share the Road’ Initiative Questionnaire on the UN Bulletin Board we have received 7 email responses, all from UN colleagues describing their commutes to work and their inputs on how to improve the situation on Nairobi roads for all users.

The main concerns highlighted by staff:

• Lack of any cycling facility and absence of respect towards cyclists as road users;
  
  
• Lack of a perception of UN staff responsibility to Nairobi’s traffic congestion and associated effects of high rates of private vehicle use leading to a poor image of internationals for the local population;
  
  
• Low consideration for the safety of pedestrians / cyclists, on highways in particular;
  
  
• Pedestrians crossing in the middle of roads – a danger to drivers and to themselves;
  
  
• Increasing traffic congestion in Nairobi and its economic and environmental effects;
  
  
• High speeds used on Limuru Road, UN Avenue (downhill after UN Campus on route to Runda) and the surrounding residential areas;
  
  
• High speeds and reckless driving used within the UN Compound;
  
  
• Lack of street lighting on roads a danger to pedestrians and cyclists, lead to increased road accidents;

Recommendations by staff:

• Increased carpooling - The Greening UNEP website ( will soon have a page for daily interactive carpooling);
  
  
• Provision of staff buses for professional UN staff – to pay a monthly / quarterly fee;
  
  
• Provision of segregated cycle lanes on roads leading to the UN campus;
  
  
• Provision of segregated pedestrian footpaths on roads leading to the UN campus;
  
  
• Provision of speed bumps on downhill portions of Limuru Road (between Belgian Embassy and Canadian High Commission) and on UN Avenue (downhill from UN campus leading to Runda);
  
  
• Number of speed bumps in general to be increased to try to control the high speed of vehicles;
  
  
• Covers to be placed over drainage holes on roadsides – as lack of these mean that cycles swerve into the path of traffic (reason given for recent child cyclist death on UN Avenue);
  
  
• Enforced safe crossings for pedestrians at the UN Gigiri Avenue.