Moroccan highways

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• Casablanca-Berrechid Highway Closure: Overnight Work Impacts Traffic
  7 April 2022, by Ginette

  As part of the widening work on the Casablanca - Berrechid highway, traffic will be temporarily suspended between the Casablanca and Bouskoura interchanges, in both directions, in order to upgrade the pedestrian footbridge, announces the National Motorway Company of Morocco (ADM).
  The work will take place at night from Thursday, April 7 at 9:00 p.m. to Friday, April 8 at 6:00 a.m. Users traveling on the highway from Berrechid to Casablanca will have to exit the highway at the Bouskoura (…)

• Salé to Build Two Major Viaducts on Hassan II Avenue, Boosting Infrastructure
  8 April 2022, by Ginette

  The city of Salé will have two viaducts near Dar As-Sekkah and the airport. The work, which will start soon, has been entrusted to the construction company El Hallaoui, which won the two tenders launched in early March by Rabat Région Aménagements for the realization of these infrastructures.
  According to Rabat Région Aménagements, which awarded the construction contracts for this work, the two new viaducts will be responsible for strengthening the road infrastructure of the city of Salé. (…)

• Moroccan Lawmaker Convicted for Highway Toll Evasion, Caught on Camera
  16 September 2022, by Sylvanus

  A businessman, parliamentarian and also president of the Taza City Council was convicted in absentia for violating the toll on the highway.
  Surveillance camera footage revealed that a member of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) forced his way through the highway toll in Taza without paying the toll fees. After receiving a report from the Moroccan Motorways Company, the public prosecutor decided to prosecute him, reports the Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar. Another report will be (…)

• Morocco Plans Rail and Highway Expansion to Connect Tetouan
  14 April 2023, by Prince

  The Moroccan government is currently studying the projects to connect the city of Tetouan to the national rail and motorway networks. Two projects that will facilitate the mobility of the inhabitants of the city and its region.
  Tetouan could soon be connected to the kingdom’s rail and motorway networks. The two projects are currently on the government’s table, reports the daily Al Akhbar. The inhabitants of the city are eagerly awaiting the realization of this connection, which will save (…)

• Morocco Expands Highway Network with Major Construction Projects
  17 June 2023, by Said

  New highway projects are in the planning and construction stages in Morocco. The existing highways are not being left behind as they are also benefiting from improvements to facilitate traffic flow.
  Among the projects, recalls L’Économiste, the widening of the Casablanca-Berrechid highway and the bypass road connecting the Nador West Med port to the Nador-Al Aroui international airport. Work on lots 2 and 3 has already progressed by more than 40%, according to Anouar Benazzouz, CEO of the (…)

• Deadly Bus-Truck Collision on Morocco Highway Kills 3, Injures 25
  10 July 2023, by Said

  A serious accident occurred on Sunday on the Marrakech-Agadir highway, near the "Draa" douar, not far from Imintanout, according to the local authorities of the province of Chichaoua.
  The toll is three dead and 25 injured, five of whom are in critical condition. The accident occurred when a passenger bus heading to Agadir collided with a freight truck traveling in the same direction.
  The local authorities, the Gendarmerie units and the civil protection services were quickly mobilized on (…)

• Morocco Begins Construction on 30km Tit Mellil-Berrechid Highway to Ease Casablanca Traffic
  21 September 2023, by Prince

  The Moroccan Motorway Company (ADM) announced the start of construction of the new Tit Mellil-Berrechid highway. A project aimed at facilitating traffic from the north and east to the south of the kingdom.
  The Tit Mellil-Berrechid highway is the first national highway with an initial 2X3 lane design. The project, which is part of the program contract between the State and ADM, will be carried out entirely by Moroccan skills. With a total investment of 2.5 billion dirhams, it aims to (…)

• Morocco Ranks 16th Globally for Road Quality, Study Finds
  11 November 2023, by Sylvanus

  According to the ranking of a specialized platform focused on the quality of road infrastructure, Morocco is among the 20 countries with the best roads in the world.
  Morocco ranks 16th in the ranking of the 20 countries with the best roads in the world, compiled by the financial platform Insider Monkey. The kingdom owes this position to the average speed score, a metric encompassing factors such as accessibility, surface condition and traffic fluidity. Moroccan roads have an average speed (…)

• Morocco Advances Major Highway Projects, Boosting National Infrastructure
  5 December 2023, by Sylvanus

  Morocco is implementing major highway and road projects. Some have a 100% completion rate, while others are making good progress.
  Speaking before the deputies in the House of Representatives on Monday, the Minister of Culture and Communication, Mehdi Bensaid, who is replacing the supervising minister who is accompanying, along with other Moroccan officials, King Mohammed VI to Abu Dhabi, provided an update on the progress of major national infrastructure projects underway or planned, (…)

• Morocco Highway Authority Refutes False Rumors of Toll Price Hikes
  11 December 2023, by Said

  The rumor that the toll on Moroccan highways would have increased is false, just indicated Anouar Benazzouz, CEO of the National Motorway Company (ADM).
  In a statement to SNRT, the official formally denied the rumors circulating on social media concerning a alleged increase in toll rates on national highways. These rumors mentioned a significant increase, with in particular an increase of 12 dirhams at the toll plaza of the Rabat-Casablanca highway.
  Benazzouz thus explained that this (…)