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[QUOTE="Nehanda, post: 30162, member: 2262"]
Kenya's highway authority caught someone breaking reinforcement bars on the Miritini-Kipevu road. Officials from the Axle Load Enforcement and Highway Unit arrested Mombasa. During the incident, they found the person carrying a mason's hammer. This same person had been caught earlier in 2024 doing the same thing.

After the previous arrest, courts ordered the person to complete six months of community service. Currently, police hold the suspect at Changamwe station until a Tuesday court appearance. The highway authority asked all citizens to help protect roads by reporting anyone damaging public infrastructure to nearby police stations.

Reinforcement bars, which engineers call "rebar" for short, serve as critical components for concrete roads and bridges. These metal pieces make concrete stronger when pulled or stretched, something concrete naturally struggles with. Roads need these bars because concrete cracks easily without help from steel reinforcement.

Workers place these steel bars in grid patterns throughout concrete to help spread heavy weights from vehicles. Different types exist for various conditions: regular steel works for basic needs, epoxy-coated versions protect against salt and water, stainless steel fights off rust near oceans, zinc-covered bars resist chemicals and bad weather. Highway reinforcement matters most where trucks travel or where temperature changes happen often.
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