ROPE-WAYS- The FUTURE OF KISUMU CITY’s URBAN TRANSPORT

A Rope-Way Transport system. Image Courtesy of Google

Image Of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Sports Grounds Kisumu. Images Courtesy of Google.

Congestion is a problem many urban cities across the world face. Mostly caused by movement of people, goods through private and public transport facilities on the limited space characteristic of the surface transport network. To tackle this problem many cities in developed and developing nations have increasingly  looked to the skies as a possible Allie in the quest to increase the efficiency of the transport system in cities.  The use of drones to offer courier services is slowly picking in most developed and developing nations of the world  across Europe and Africa with Rwanda using the technology to deliver blood donations to locations where such is urgently needed

Flirtey drone used to make the first FAA-approved delivery in the U.S. — accepted into the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.

. In Kenya the price pegged on owning and operating a drone is pegged at Ksh200,000 or USD1,988.31 USD;

a price which many business experts like Dr George Njenga, Dean, Strathmore Business School believe is prohibitive to the development of such courier services.

The need to provide an efficient transport system that is sustainable and efficient to cater for the needs of the the ever rising population of urban cities is a quagmire many cities increasingly have to unravel and air has been considered a possible solution to the mess that is characteristic of the surface transport network. The use of rope-ways is a transport system that has been adopted by Austria, France, Poland, Russia, and Italy and is increasingly seen as a panacea for transport woes which the County of Government of Kisumu in Kenya faces