[1] The road starts at Kisumu, on the northeastern shores of Lake Victoria.
It takes a general northerly direction through Kakamega and Webuye, to end at Kitale, on the Suam–Endebess–Kitale–Eldoret Road, a total distance of about 160 kilometres (99 mi).
[4] Beginning in 2015, the Government of Kenya, through its parastatal KeNHA began to widen the road to 11 meters (36 feet), with shoulders, culverts, drainage channels, passing lanes, bus stops and access roads in urban centres.
In some sections the road was widened to dual carriage.
[5] The entire project was budgeted at KSh4.7 billion (approximately US$46.7 million).