Morocco will build a bypass motorway for Rabat

Morocco's new mainland motorway, a route intended for users of the Rabat-Casablanca, Rabat-Fez and Kenitra-Tangier axis, is expected to be operational by 2030. As Le360 reports, this project aims to build a new motorway infrastructure without passing through the capital, thus reducing distances and travel times.  

The Ministry of Equipment and Water has already launched the first study of this project for an amount of 3 million dirhams. The objective of this study focuses on the development of variants for this connecting road and the proposal of possible corridors. 

"As part of the development and modernisation of the national road network, the Ministry of Equipment and Water is working to improve travel conditions for users through the implementation of several ambitious programmes whose main axes today are focused on the user, his safety and his needs. It is along these lines that this major project has been launched," explains Nizar Baraka's ministry. 

According to the Moroccan media, this new motorway, in addition to improving traffic conditions for users of the various arteries, will essentially be designed to connect the country's main economic centres, while decongesting the overcrowded sections of the major cities, such as Rabat. 

This project will not only reduce distances and travel times, but will also offer an alternative for users coming from Fez to reach Tangiers or Casablanca by avoiding the current route on national road number 6. 

"This major project is a central element of the infrastructural transformations, a symbol of a Morocco resolutely oriented towards the future. It responds to growing mobility needs and opens up new prospects for socio-economic development for the three regions Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Casablanca-Settat and Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima," says the Ministry of Equipment and Water.  

Morocco has been working for several years to strengthen its road and motorway infrastructure. The Kingdom currently has 1,800 kilometres of roads on which an average of 432,000 vehicles travel every day. 

This motorway project, which is scheduled to be operational by 2030, will complete the mobility infrastructure, particularly rail, by means of an invitation to tender issued by the National Office of Railways (ONCF) for the execution of work on a railway tunnel project in the capital with a total budget estimated at 1.92 billion dirhams.