Kenya’s highways may be expanding at record speed, but travellers say the journey remains unsafe and undignified. With over 4,600 deaths recorded on the roads annually and billions lost to inefficiencies, the absence of rest areas, toilets, eateries, and safe parking bays has turned long-distance travel into a public health and safety crisis. On a scorching afternoon along the Isiolo–Nairobi highway, a bus slows down near a roadside. Passengers spill out, some looking for bushes to relieve themselves, others stretching in the open sun with no shade in sight. It is a common scene across Kenya’s highways. For many travelers, the absence of rest areas, toilets, eateries,…