LOCATION: KAMPALA, CENTRAL UGANDA

CLIENT: ICS under UGANDA NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY (UNRA)

DATE: DECEMBER 2016

Kampala City has recently faced significant growth in traffic that have been a strain on the existing road capacity.

As part of measures to alleviate gridlock within the city, JICA commissioned a study in 2010 and later on updated in 2013 and 2014 to investigate options for alleviating chronic traffic jams in the Greater Kampala. Among others, this study recommended the construction of two flyovers at Kitgum House and Clock Tower Junctions, widening of Mukwano Road, improvements of interfacing roads and junctions would be effective and feasible to achieve the mitigation of traffic congestion in GKMA. The proposed project also considered improvement of traffic safety for non-motorized transportation (NMT).

It later became apparent that there were major gains to be realised by the extension of the Kampala Flyover concept in order to link up with the Proposed Kampala Jinja Expressway.

Alpha offered the following services on this proposed link:

• Core drilling and logging of 5 boreholes to a minimum of 15 meters, in-situ soil strength testing (SPT), recovery of both disturbed and undisturbed soil samples and laboratory testing of the recovered samples for the proposed Flyover bridge at Lugogo, Kampala.
• Installation of a piezometer for ground water level monitoring.
• Preparation of a Factual Ground Investigations Report.