East African Business Week (Kampala)
David Muwanga
18 October 2009
Kampala City Council (KCC) and the Uganda Ministry of Lands are carrying out a study aimed at developing Kampala City into a metropolitan city. This means the boundaries of the current Kampala City will encompass the surrounding towns of Mukono in the East, Wakiso in the north, Entebbe south of the city and other small towns in the West of Kampala. This demarcation is currently referred to as greater Kampala.
"The study is aimed at expanding the boundaries of Kampala and constructing of more roads as some of the ways to reduce on the traffic jams that have become a recurrent problem causing delays in transport in the city," said the Kampala City Council Physical Planner, Mr Charles Kyamanywa.
"However I would like to emphasize that the planned developments of expanding the city do not affect the political boundaries of the city and each of the towns that will be affected will remain with its administrative structure and in collection of taxes," he said.
He said this last week while responding to a complaint from the Federation of Uganda Employers (FUE) executive director, Ms Rosemary Ssenabulya that investors are no longer interested in Uganda because of traffic jams in the city.
"I recently attended a meeting in Switzerland and overheard some investors complaining about the traffic jams in Kampala and what the authorities were doing about it," she said.
"KCC started restructuring Kampala in 1994 and the World Bank had already provided more money for further restructuring but the government decided that we carry out a study aimed at developing it into a metropolitan city," he said.
"The study covers development of new roads, energy supply in the city, the transport infrastructure and on the local economic developments on how people in Kampala live their lives," he said.
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