{"id":222587,"date":"2026-02-02T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-huge-traffic-snarls-on-major-roads-as-motorists-protest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:24:36","slug":"kenya-huge-traffic-snarls-on-major-roads-as-motorists-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-huge-traffic-snarls-on-major-roads-as-motorists-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Huge Traffic Snarls On Major Roads As Motorists Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Heavy traffic was reported on major roads across Kenya after motorists began protests early today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A spot check by <em>Capital FM Business<\/em> found vehicles stranded on several highways as car owners heeded calls to stay off the roads following recent cases of vehicles being torched by boda boda riders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Along Outer Ring Road, long queues of vehicles were seen bumper-to-bumper after passenger service vehicles blocked sections of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Motorists using Waiyaki Way were similarly affected as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602020129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Heavy traffic was reported on major roads across Kenya after motorists began protests early today. A spot check by Capital FM Business found vehicles stranded on several highways as car owners heeded calls to stay off the roads following recent cases of vehicles being torched by boda boda riders. Along Outer Ring Road, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8409,4688,430,7373,9709,257,2194,9013,53549,254,9527],"class_list":["post-222587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-huge","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-major","tag-motorists","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-roads","tag-snarls","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}