Why EA countries chose more costly route for standard gauge railway line
The standard gauge railway line allows for increased capacity for more goods and passengers. Photo/File
Even as the region looks forward to the groundbreaking of the $11 billion Mombasa-Kampala-Kigali railway in November, it is emerging that East African governments shelved alternatives that would have slashed the estimated project cost by as much as 70 per cent.
Sources privy to the project told The EastAfrican that the three governments of Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda ignored an earlier study that had proposed the migration from the current metre gauge to the standard gauge railway line through the addition of an extra track on the current line.
