{"id":917327,"date":"2022-01-18T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/18\/section-of-thika-garissa-road-to-be-closed-for-77-days\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T13:33:03","slug":"section-of-thika-garissa-road-to-be-closed-for-77-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/section-of-thika-garissa-road-to-be-closed-for-77-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Section of Thika-Garissa Road to be closed for 77 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/whyxucb3fwpsrsvmv5lu61e6ba26b8230.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>A section of Thika Road<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A section of the Thika-Garissa Road will be closed for 77 days, starting Wednesday, January 19, to allow for the construction of a box culvert at Kathuluni River, Machakos County.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA) says motorists will consequently use diversions that have already been set up. <\/p>\n<p>KENHA Director-General Kungu Ndung\u2019u said the nearly-three-month construction will end on April 5.\n<\/p>\n<p>Box culverts are used to assist with drainage during rainy seasons. They are rectangular in shape and are generally constructed using concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The culverts can also be used as passages to cross the rail or roadway during dry periods for animals.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 322-km Thika-Garissa Road links to Liboi, a town on the Kenya-Somalia border. Liboi is located 179kms from Garissa Town.\n<\/p>\n<p>The route is often used by long distance truck drivers who transport cargo to the far-flung north-eastern counties, and even into Somalia. <\/p>\n<p>Passengers shuttling between Nairobi and Garissa also frequent the route.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001434772\/section-of-thika-garissa-road-to-be-closed-for-77-days\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of Thika Road [Courtesy] A section of the Thika-Garissa Road will be closed for 77 days, starting Wednesday, January 19, to allow for the construction of a box culvert at Kathuluni River, Machakos County. The Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA) says motorists will consequently use diversions that have already been set up. KENHA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}