{"id":244820,"date":"2026-09-18T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-expressway-announces-westlands-traffic-diversion-from-saturday\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T16:30:19","slug":"kenya-nairobi-expressway-announces-westlands-traffic-diversion-from-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nairobi-expressway-announces-westlands-traffic-diversion-from-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nairobi Expressway Announces Westlands Traffic Diversion From Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Motorists advised to use lower A8 road during Nairobi Expressway works<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Motorists heading to the Nairobi Expressway Westlands entrance from the James Gichuru Junction will be required to use the lower A8 road, Waiyaki Way, during planned maintenance and construction works on the elevated overpass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The temporary traffic diversion will take effect at 8pm on Saturday and run until noon on Monday, September 21, according to a notice issued by Moja Expressway Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609180475.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Motorists advised to use lower A8 road during Nairobi Expressway works Motorists heading to the Nairobi Expressway Westlands entrance from the James Gichuru Junction will be required to use the lower A8 road, Waiyaki Way, during planned maintenance and construction works on the elevated overpass. The temporary traffic diversion will take effect at 8pm on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":244821,"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":[258,256,4334,10863,8794,4688,430,259,257,11533,254,9527,29461],"class_list":["post-244820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-diversion","tag-expressway","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-saturday","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traffic","tag-westlands"],"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\/244820","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=244820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}