Nairobi City County is carrying out widespread road maintenance and beautification across the Central Business District (CBD) and surrounding roads as the city undergoes a major renewal.

🇰🇪 Breaking It Down

The CBD has taken on a new look, with construction, road maintenance and beautification works underway in several parts of the city as the county advances its renewal programme.

The ongoing urban renewal features cobble-paved walkways, vintage-style streetlights, resurfaced asphalt lanes, and newly landscaped green spaces designed to improve pedestrian safety and restore the city's aesthetic appeal.

When roaming the city, however, you will realise that the cobblestone walkways increasingly feature a distinctive yellow strip running through the middle.

📌 What You Need to Know

Unbeknownst to many, the yellow strips are not for aesthetics that serves a specific purpose.

The yellow strip is known as tactile paving. It is an accessibility feature designed to help visually impaired pedestrians navigate public spaces more safely.

It has raised patterns that can be easily detected with a white cane or by touch underfoot. This allows people with visual impairments to identify and follow a designated pedestrian route.

It is painted a particularly bright yellow, as the colour provides strong visual contrast, making the strip easier to identify for people with partial sight.

The feature has become increasingly visible on upgraded roads and pedestrian facilities in Nairobi, including sections of Uhuru Highway and the approaches to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

Sections of the pedestrian infrastructure have already been opened to the public , allowing pedestrians to move along the road without sharing the carriageway with vehicles.

📰 Source: Kenyans.co.ke