The rate of progress of works on the Tiznit-Dakhla expressway has reached 43%, the Minister of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water, Abdelkader Amara, told Tiznit on Tuesday.
In a press statement, on the sidelines of a visit to the N1 national road site at the Tiznit-Dakhla section, Abdelkader Amara stressed that this mega project involves the construction of the Tiznit-Laâyoune expressway, the strengthening and the widening of the national road N 1 to 9 meters between Laâyoune and Dakhla as well as the construction of 16 structures.
Work on the section linking Tiznit and Laâyoune reached 46%, he said, noting that the construction of more than 480 km will be completed before the end of the current year.
And to add that the rate of progress of the widening of the national road between Laâyoune and Dakhla exceeds 90% while the realization of 16 structures reaches 13%, stressing that the call for tenders relating to the construction of a bridge (1650 meters) at the level of the ring road of the city of Laâyoune will be launched at the beginning of next May.
The Tiznit-Dakhla expressway, the subject of a partnership agreement signed before HM King Mohammed VI in Laâyoune in 2015, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Green March, is part of the new model development of the southern provinces of the Kingdom.
This large-scale project, which stretches over 1,055 km and whose implementation cost amounts to around 10 billion MAD, constitutes a structuring lever for the economic and social development of the southern provinces of the Kingdom.
The realization of this expressway aims to develop a road axis with technical standards of size between the southern provinces and the other regions of the Kingdom, to reduce the time of transport and to improve the comfort and the road safety, able to facilitate the transport. goods between the cities of southern Morocco and the major production and distribution centers.
