Morocco Plans Major Highway Project to Connect Rabat, Casablanca, Fez, and Tangier

A connecting highway linking the Rabat-Casablanca continental, Rabat-Fez and Kénitra-Tangier highways. This is the ambition of the Ministry of Equipment and Water, which on Friday launched a consultation to carry out the definition study of this highway, which aims to propose appropriate solutions in terms of development, costs and meeting needs, based on relevant technical and economic studies. "The purpose of this study is focused on the development of variants for the connecting highway between the Rabat-Casablanca continental, Rabat-Fez and Kénitra-Tangier highways and the proposal of potential corridors and the outline of relevant solutions that compose them," the department of Nizar Baraka specified in a document accompanying the call for tenders.

The overall objective of the highway construction project is to establish a new highway infrastructure bypassing Rabat for users of the Rabat-Casablanca, Rabat-Fez and Kénitra-Tangier axes, thus reducing distances and travel times. It will also offer an alternative for users coming from Fez to reach Tangier or Casablanca, thus avoiding the current passage through National Road No. 6, which contributes to decongesting the city of Rabat and improving urban mobility.