TRAFFIC CONGESTION CHOKES WANDEGEYA AND KIKONI ROADS
By GUMISIRIZA ROBERT KAMPALA – Residents and road users in Wandegeya and Kikoni continue to struggle with heavy traffic congestion, worsened by malfunctioning and missing traffic lights, which has turned daily travel into a big challenge During evening and morning hours, long waiting lines of cars, taxis, and boda-bodas stretch for meters, especially along the busy routes like those leading to Makerere University , town, Nakulabye, Mulago and along Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road. With traffic lights either malfunctioning or absent, traffic officers are left struggling to manually control movement s , usually with limited success. “Many of the jams you see here are caused by failure of road users to follow traffic rules, ” said Atuhaire Moses a traffic officer at Wandegeya. “We tr y to maintain order, but the road users complicate our work especially when drivers refuse to cooperate by following the traffic rules.” Travellers say the congestion has become part of th...
