Much-awaited TAZARA flyover enters its trial phase next month
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August 17, 2018
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Much-awaited TAZARA flyover enters its trial phase next month
TRIAL runs on the almost-completed Tazara flyover in Dar es Salaam are set to begin next month before it is fully opened for traffic in October, it has been established.
The Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS) manager for Dar es Salaam Region, Julius Ndyamukama, told The Guardian in an interview on Wednesday that engineers are currently applying final touches to the landmark road infrastructure.
According to Ndyamukama, the major construction work is basically finished and well on time, with the formal project completion and handover scheduled for the end of October.
“All that remains are minor works such as installation of traffic lights,” the TANROADS official explained.
He commended the engineers for “a job well done” so far, but stressed that professional engineering tenets require that a trial phase for such big projects be held before formal opening for public use.
Briefing members of the Engineers Registration Board (ERB) who visited the project early this year, the project’s works execution managing engineer Kiyokazu Tsuji said there will still be a need for more flyovers in other busy road intersections within the city in order to properly control Dar es Salaam’s notorious traffic congestions.
According to Tsuji, although the Tazara flyover will allow people rushing to places like the airport to cross that particular intersection quickly, commuters heading in other directions with equally busy intersections such as Changombe, Kamata, Uhasibu, Mwenge, Morocco, Magomeni, and Tabata will still face traffic snarl-ups.
The Tazara flyover project at the junction of the Nelson Mandela Expressway and Nyerere Road has been funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and will cost a total of $45 million upon completion.
According to TANROADS, the four-lane carriageways will reduce up to 80 per cent of the time spent to travel to the airport from the city centre.
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