Machakos Country Bus, Nairobi’s oldest bus station will be demolished

Nairobi’s oldest bus station will soon be converted into an underground parking lot that will be digitally operated.

This is part of the plan by the Nairobi Metropolitan Service to decongest the city and introduce automation parking.

In an interview, NMS Director-General Mohammed Badi disclosed that the parking will be charged hourly once the storey parking is constructed.

“NMS has already initiated the process of developing underground parking at Sunken Park which will also happen at Machakos Bus Park. And all these underground parking areas will be digitally controlled,” he said.

“It will be affordable and once the motorists reach the parking lot, you will pay through mobile money, leave your car there and it will be parked for you in whichever floor of that building, ”Badi added.

One of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directives to NMS last year on March 18, 2020, was to have automation of parking facilities in at least three areas within Nairobi.

As of July, Desai Road, Machakos Bus station, Sunken Car park (along Aga Khan walk) and Nairobi law court parking had been automated.

NMS plans to integrate hourly parking to a number of parking areas which will be converted into underground parking.

At The Holy Family Basilica church, a four-storey parking bay has been set up with 536 parking slots, where before it used to accommodate only 120 parking spaces.

The construction was implemented by Chinese contractor China Zhongxing Construction Company.