World Cup 2030 Revives Plans for Casablanca Metro System

Innovative and quality transportation is one of the major challenges of Morocco’s organization of this World Cup, together with Spain and Portugal. To meet this challenge, the project to create a metro network in Casablanca, abandoned for decades, could be reactivated, reports Hespress.

This metro project dating back to the 1970s aims to improve public transportation and reduce traffic jams in the city of Casablanca. It was abandoned on June 30, 2014, after the announcement a year earlier of the construction of a 15 km above-ground metro line, connecting the Sidi Moumen district to the Corniche Street near the Hassan II Mosque.

The project had been abandoned in favor of the existing tramway project under the mandate of the former mayor Mohamed Sajid. The tramway line has been in operation since December 2012, but has not been enough to solve the problem of traffic jams in the city of Casablanca, which is experiencing a demographic explosion.