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Hell run that is the new Kaloleni roadby Arusha Times Reporter The newly constructed Kaloleni road, which connects the main Arusha-Moshi highway to the Makongoro road at the Freedom torch junction, has turned to a threaten to the lives of residents in the area. Lacking the speed humps, the road has become a favourite among fast drivers and rowdy motor-cyclists who enjoy speeding up and down the dangerously inclined road. On Monday this week, at about 5.30pm, a little girl identified by the single name of Khadija, was knocked down and thrown into a ditch by a speeding taxi-cab with registration number TZL 9293, an old model, Toyota Mark II Sedan. The girl was badly hurt and by the time we left the area, a mob of people were forcing the driver to drop his passenger and rush the girl to the hospital. Built in order to relieve the rather usually congested Col. Middleton road, the Kaloleni road has instead turned out to be an escape route for drivers of faulty or overloaded vehicles since the road is hardly manned by Traffic Police. Kaloleni road which runs right along residential houses door-steps, doesn’t allow walking space for pedestrians as its ether sides borders deep drainage ditches without cross over planks. There is only one zebra-crossing mark along the entire one and a half kilometre road which joins the Arusha-Moshi highway at the Ilboru junction, just adjacent to the Ithna-Asheri (Dr. Mohammed)’s hospital of Kaloleni. The just completed Kaloleni road will be one of the two roads being constructed in the area, the other incomplete road also joins Kaloleni road at St. James Parish junction, but runs via the District Court, up through Soweto estate housing and onto Arusha-Moshi highway at Mianzini. Meanwhile, despite recent orders from the municipal officials that all street garages be shifted to Suye Hill, the increasingly expanding garage adjacent to St. James Anglican parish is still carrying out its business in the area. The garage, which seems to mostly specialize in Peugeot models of vehicles, is ironically stationed in front of one of the Municipal Council’s residential flats.
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