There’s growing excitement in the Kenyan capital that congestion-weary motorists will finally get some relief, now that the 27-kilometer Nairobi Expressway is nearing completion. Years of construction have further snarled the city’s already miserable traffic but that’s expected to improve once the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) finishes construction early next year. As of last weekend, the project is 75% finished.

While commuters are no doubt eager to see traffic resume on the streets below and to quickly zip through the city center on the elevated expressway, there are growing concerns that this massive new infrastructure will largely be available only to the rich who can pay the toll fees that CRBC will be collecting to recoup the half-a-billion dollars it spent to build the project.