The Maputo municipality on Friday signed an agreement with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the financing of a study on a new road management system for the Mozambican capital, reports the daily newspaper “O Pais”.Under the agreement, signed by Maputo’s mayor David Simango and JICA’s representative Sanjo Akihito, JICA will disburse two million US dollars to cover the full cost of the study.
According to Simango, the study will design an integrated transport system, including a new mass transportation system such as an overground metro, and will look at ways to strengthen the existing efforts to decongest road traffic in Maputo.“Our goal is that the master plan should establish new routes, including motorways, to enter and leave the city. We hope to define a new hierarchy for roads, which identifies new corridors for public transport and sustainable solutions to transport problems in the medium and long term”, said Simango.The study will be carried out over a 20 month period, starting in December. It will also cover the adjacent city of Matola, and the outlying districts of Catembe and Marracuene.Speaking during the event, JICA’s Sanjo Akihito stressed that “we are aware that transport is vital for the development of any country in the world”.In July, it was announced that a network of overground metro trains and electric buses, linking the cities of Maputo and Matola and the district of Marracuene, could start operating by the end of 2013 at a cost of 955 million dollars. This was according to a feasibility study presented to the government by the Italian company SALCEF.
According to Simango, the study will design an integrated transport system, including a new mass transportation system such as an overground metro, and will look at ways to strengthen the existing efforts to decongest road traffic in Maputo.“Our goal is that the master plan should establish new routes, including motorways, to enter and leave the city. We hope to define a new hierarchy for roads, which identifies new corridors for public transport and sustainable solutions to transport problems in the medium and long term”, said Simango.The study will be carried out over a 20 month period, starting in December. It will also cover the adjacent city of Matola, and the outlying districts of Catembe and Marracuene.Speaking during the event, JICA’s Sanjo Akihito stressed that “we are aware that transport is vital for the development of any country in the world”.In July, it was announced that a network of overground metro trains and electric buses, linking the cities of Maputo and Matola and the district of Marracuene, could start operating by the end of 2013 at a cost of 955 million dollars. This was according to a feasibility study presented to the government by the Italian company SALCEF.
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