Uganda's Highways turn into the 50km per hour speed limit roads

One of the nightmares that Ugandans face today is the delay on the roads. We have beautiful new roads in many parts of the country which are ordinarily called highways. On our highways you can do 100km per hour. This means the Jinja Kampala road which is 80kms will take you less than a hour if was an highway as properly defined. But to the disappointment of everybody on the roads, we now have to plan for more time to move from one place to another. Reason is congestion on the roads, poor planning of the roads, poor location. Literally on all roads in the country, there are trading centres everywhere and in these centres the speed limit is 50km/hr. If you are lucky, there will be a zebra crossing without a hump.if you are not lucky, there will be several humps. This has made planning of travel very difficult. You need to plan for two hours to drive from Kampala to Entebbe which is a 40km journey. Our poor planning contributes greatly to this inefficiency which is finally cost in our production system. The Northern Bypass which was supposed to ease traffic, it has now become an ordinary street. The Lugogo bypass was intended to serve the same purpose, it is now full of big buildings. The Masaka town by pass is also developing business along the side. The Lyantonde Bypass is no longer a bypass. Now that Mrs. Kagina is in UNRA, maybe we will plan these roads properly. One thing that bothers me is why does everybody who builds a house make it face the road? It also posses a question, why are houses two or three bedrooms with a corridor and the garage even if the person building may never own a car.