Garsen–Witu–Lamu Highway is a road, under construction in

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, connecting the towns of

Garsen Garsen is a small town located in Tana River County, Kenya. It is on the west bank of the Tana River. Location Garsen is located on the banks of the Tana River, in Tana River County, approximately south of Hola, the location of the county headq ...

, Witu and

Lamu Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated by road northeast of Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty, from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island. ...

Location

The road starts at Garsen, in

Tana River County Tana River County is a county in the former Coast Province of Kenya. It is named after the Tana River, the longest river in Kenya. It has an area of and a population of 315,943 as of the 2019 census. The county borders Kitui County to the we ...

, pursuing a general easterly direction through Witu to end at

Mokowe Mokowe is a small town in Kenya's Lamu County in what was previously Coast Province. Location Mokowe is located on the Garsen–Witu–Lamu Highway, approximately , east of Garsen. It is the last town on the route to the Mokowe Jetty, about away ...

Lamu County Lamu County is a county of Kenya located along the North Coast of the country and is one of the six Coastal Counties in Kenya. Its capital is the town of Lamu. It borders Tana River County to the southwest, Garissa County to the north, Somali ...

, where the ferry connects to

Lamu Island Lamu Island is a port, city, and island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately 150 miles from Mombasa. It is a part of the East African country of Kenya. Lamu was founded in the 12th Century. Lamu is one of the longest esta ...

, a total distance of about . However the construction contract gives the distance as .

Overview

This road, is an important trade corridor for traffic headed from Nairobi, South Sudan and Ethiopia, to the proposed Port Lamu and is a component of the

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Highway, part of

LAPSSET Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor project, also known as Lamu corridor is a transport and infrastructure project in Kenya that, when complete, will be the country's second transport corridor. Kenya's other transport cor ...

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The

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, using locally sourced funds, plans to upgrade the entire road to class II bitumen surface with shoulders, culverts and drainage channels.

Kenya National Highway Authority The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) is an autonomous road agency. Its responsibility is for the management, development, rehabilitation, and maintenance of Class S, A and B roads as explained below. Location The headquarters of KeNHA ar ...

is handling the hiring of a qualified, competent contractor to carry on the work. H-Young Company was selected to improve the surface to grade II bitumen standard, widen the road to across, with culverts, drainage channels and side paths at a cost of KSh10.8 billion (US$108 million). As of December 2018, construction works were approximately 20 percent complete, with a completion date of December 2019. In December 2020

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newspaper reported construction progress at 75 percent, with commissioning expected in October 2021. In March 2021, The Star Kenya reported work progress at an estimated 87 percent complete. At that time the road length is reported as long. Completion is expected later in 2021.

References

External links

Webpage of the Kenya National Highway Authority

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