Casablanca Plans New Highway to Ease Traffic and Connect Major Routes

"This highway link will connect the continental highway Casablanca-Rabat to the Tit Mellil-Berrechid highway and the Casablanca-Berrechid (A3) highway to the Casablanca-Had Soualem (A1) highway and the regional road RR320, with the main objective of significantly reducing the distance and travel time for users destined for Berrechid and Had Soualem from Rabat," the call for tenders states.

The definition study of this new highway, which "would in particular relieve the A1 highway between Tit Mellil and Had Soualem," aims to "identify opportunities to create and develop a high-level service highway link that can strengthen the infrastructure network in the area made up of the province of Benslimane, the prefecture of Mohammedia, the province of Mediouna and the province of Nouaceur," the document specifies. Estimated at a cost of 3 million dirhams, the study should last five months.

To recall, a first call for tenders had been launched in December last year by the regional directorate of Equipment, Transport and Logistics of Casablanca-Settat, before being declared unsuccessful for non-compliance with article 4 of the tender regulations (RC) of the technical offers presented by the three bidders (Conseils Ingénierie et Développement, NOVEC and the SETEC Maroc-SETEC International grouping).