As argued before, Kampala’s South faces a structural accessibility problem. While the North has a three-layered system of ringroads surrounding the city centre, the South has pretty much none. This leads to all traffic using Entebbe Road and subsequently getting stuck at Clock Tower.
What is needed in the longer term is a mirroring of the three northern semi-circles.
Ring 1: Connects Clock Tower and Wandegeya be means of ‘Canal Street‘, a dual carriageway on top of Nakivubo Channel.
Ring 2: Serving as the equivalent to Lugogo Bypass, this Southern Ringroad starts at Lugogo Shopping Mall, passes through Muyenga, Kansanga, Makindye, Natete, Mengo and finally ends at Wandegeya junction.
Ring 3: The Northern Bypass is currently being completed and is due to be opened this year. It is likely to have a major impact on central Kampala because all heavy-duty through-traffic will be able to avoid the city. At a much later stage, the same should happen to the South (click to enlarge):
Similar to the Northern Bypass, most of this road will be on a new alignment. It commences at Mandela Stadium, passes Kireka, Mbuya and Bugolobi to their South and crosses the swamp towards Muyenga. It swings around Bukasa before joining Gaba Road North-West of Bunga. It then continues to Munyonyo, crosses the swamp and follows an existing road towards Lubowa. In Kajjansi the bypass crosses Entebbe Road. From there, it runs through the valleys until it joins Masaka Road and subsequently the Northern Bypass in Busega.
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Thanks for the work done.
Hullo i would like to thank all the people involved in this
statagic planning,that they have done a good job for the development of the kampala city to lessen the trafic in the
city.Thanks to the Goverment of Uganda.
I would give this comment of main regarding the (southern bypass.
Now we(Ugandans) would like to see action on the ground.The metropolitan city now covers upto Mukono .Traffic jams actually start from Mukono(Wantoni) area.I wish the southern bypass starts around this exact location.It takes close to 2 hours to cover this short distance(to and from Kampala!). Otherwise thumbs up.
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