Uganda has finally delivered the long-awaited famous Kampala flyover road project, renewing a new ray of hope to millions of Ugandans who battle interrupted traffic flow due to endless jams within the Central Business District.
Built with the support from the Japanese government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, the project was commissioned on Wednesday, March 2025, by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
A short clip displaying the newly built Kampala Flyover.
During the commissioning, Ugandans exhibited massive excitement confirming their enthusiastic expectation to use the new road infrastructure.
Despite repeated sabotage by the opposition leaders like the Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, who spend all their time in office politicking and sabotaging essential developments, the Kampala flyover project was successfully constructed, and now it’s open for public usage.
The flyover road project components include the Clock Tower Flyover, Shoprite Pedestrian Bridge, Clock Tower Circular Bridge, Kibuli Pedestrian Bridge, Nsambya Underpass, New Clock Tower, Widened and strengthened roads, water fountains and pump houses, five signalized junctions (Nsambya, Kibuli Overpass, and others), an improved drainage system, electrical installation for signals, street lights, four transformers, traffic signal controllers, 41 traffic signal poles, Nsambya Underpass lighting, nine gantries for traffic light installations, among others.
Minister of State for Works Musa Ecweru said the project will support government strategies to decongest the city by separating traffic.
“This project focuses on traffic entering the city, mainly from Entebbe along the old Kampala-Entebbe road and from Mpigi along the Kampala-Mpigi expressway,” said Minister Ecwru.
Ecweru said traffic from the above routes, destined to Lugogo, Nakawa, and points along the Kampala-Jinja highway, is expected to find this new route faster and more user-friendly, reducing travel times and carbon emissions from exhaust fumes in traffic on the city streets.
The project is a testament to the unwavering commitment of the National Resistance Movement government to deliver socio-economic transformation to both urban and rural citizens as stipulated in the manifesto and NRM principles.
These are some of the projects the opposition never wants to show and definitely will never welcome happily. Indeed, the Kampala we had longed for is finally here.
This reaffirms the government’s commitment to enhancing reliable infrastructure development for socio-economic transformation.
The USD 200 million (Ugx 734 billion) project is aimed at easing urban mobility and decongesting traffic in Kampala capital city as the government continues with its broader plan to ensure sustainable urban development and poverty eradication.
The author is a young Entrepreneur dealing in UBER business in Kampala City
