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The Harare to Beitbridge road is no longer a death trap after Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) embarked and finished a 354km of Harare-Beitbridge road now opened to traffic
The Harare-Beitbridge Road has transformed the country road network infrastructure as it responds to modern demands, particularly traffic that comes through the mordenised Beitbridge Border Post, a critical component of the North-South Corridor.
ZINARA plans to rehabilitate the entire 897km Chirundu-Harare and Harare-Beitbridge roads, which forms part of the TransAfrica Highway (10 228km beginning in Cape Town and ending in Cairo). Five local companies; Tensor Systems, Masimba Holdings, Fossil Contracting, Exodus & Company and Bitumen World, were contracted to upgrade the Harare-Beitbridge Highway.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Felix Mhone confirmed the developments on the ministry’s Twitter handle yesterday.
Atwitting that, Bitumen had completed and opened to traffic 81.3km, Fossil 80km, Masimba 65.97km, Exodus 60km, Tensor 60km while a Trial Section (Demo) of 7.2km has also been opened making it a total of 354.47km.
Great progress has been made in the ongoing rehabilitation of the Harare-Beitbridge Road that was once a death trap but is now turning into a modern road under the watch of the Second Republic.
As it stands, a total of 354.47km along the Harare-Beitbridge Road has now been opened to traffic as Government continues to make progress in the rehabilitation of the country’s roads under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2).
Focus is not only on arterial highways but also those in suburbs In the rehabilitation of the country’s roads.
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