Tangier Residents Frustrated as Road Repair Project Fails to Deliver Promised Results

The mayor of the city of Tangier, Mounir Lymouri, was unable to solve the problem of the holes within a few weeks as he had promised. Apart from some simple "touch-ups" near the town hall and a few streets in the city center, the roads are still in poor condition. A big disappointment for road users. Disappointment expressed by the municipal councilor Bilal Akouh in an interview with the site Achkayen. Like the members of the municipal council and all the inhabitants of the city, he says he was delighted with the national call for tenders number 2024/CT/12 launched by the municipality to eliminate the holes that are spreading throughout the city. Except that his joy was short-lived. "But after the signing of the contract and the start of the work to develop the streets of the city and rehabilitate them to get rid of the holes, we found, as well as public opinion, that the operation mainly concerned the main roads and arteries of the city, while most of the streets, especially the secondary ones, remained in the same state, which means a daily hell for road users and for all the inhabitants of the city," laments the elected official.

He will add: "Moreover, the streets that have been the subject of rehabilitation work to eliminate the holes are also suffering from their poor condition due to the lack of precise standards during the maintenance work, which makes them impracticable due to the many potholes." According to his explanations, "the crisis of the streets of the city of Tangier is a complex crisis, and in most cases, it is due either to the lack of control of the work carried out by certain companies, in particular the distribution companies and the telecommunications companies, or to the weakness of this control, which means that the streets of the city do not regain their original state after each construction site." And to estimate: "Tangier today needs a slogan more representative of its aspirations, namely the slogan Zero Hole Zero Pothole, and with a lot of supervision and implementation of sanction mechanisms."