1,800 km of highways to be completed by 2015

Morocco’s motorway network will cover 1,800 kilometres by 2015 and will link all of the cities with over 400,000 inhabitants. This promise has come from the country's Transport Minister, Karim Ghellab.
With its current 916 km of motorways, Morocco already has Africa's second largest network, second only to that of South Africa. The development of the motorway network comes with a stepping up of the rate of construction, rising from 40 km per year during the 1990s to 160 km a year between 2000 and 2009, the minister said. He was speaking during a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Moroccan national motorway association (ADM). The construction programme foresees the completion of the Marrakech-Agadir (233 km) and Fes-Oujda (328 km) sections in 2010 and 2011 respectively and the start of work over the coming months of 384 km including the Rabat highway (41 Km) and the Berrechid-Beni Mellal (172 km), El Jadida-Safi (140 Km) and Casablanca-Berrechid sections.

via ANSAmed