The Rabat Ring Road or Rabat Bypass (official name ''Rocade de contournement de Rabat'') is a
Moroccan expressway around the capital
Rabat.
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Rabat Ringroad
, (French), visited 17 March 2012
Background
The road is constructed to relieve the city of Rabat and
Salé
Salé ( ar, سلا, salā, ; ber, ⵙⵍⴰ, sla) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat, for which it serves as a commuter town. Founded in about 1030 by the Banu Ifran, ...
from passing-through traffic. Like all Moroccan expressways the road is being constructed by the ADM or in full the
Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc
The Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM) is Morocco's national authority for the management of over 1400+ km of Moroccan expressways. ADM is based in Rabat.
ADM runs the network on a pay-per-use basis, with toll stations placed a ...
. This new by-pass will shorten traveling times for ongoing traffic between
Casablanca and the North and it will also decrease the number of accidents as the Moroccan expressways have better safety records than local and national roads.
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Safety records
, visited 17 March 2012
The route
The new ring road will connect to the existing motorway from
Casablanca in the South and finally connect to the existing
A5 and
A2 towards the North and North-East of the country.
Characteristics
The total length of the ring road will be 41,1 km: 36 km main-route and 5,1 km upgrade of existing roads. There will be 5 interchanges with other roads - one of them the junction with the A1 expressway from Casablanca.
There will be one 'service area' with petrol-station, restaurant and a place for praying at KP26 (KP=kilometre numbering, so at 26 km from the start point). Other nearby service-points are at KP 27 of the Casablanca-Rabat expressway and at KP28 of Rabat-Kenitra expressway.
Three bridges are being built over the
Bou Regreg
The Bou Regreg ( ar, أبو رقراق) is a river located in western Morocco which discharges to the Atlantic Ocean between the cities of Rabat and Salé. The estuary of this river is termed Wadi Sala.
The river is 240 kilometres long, with a ...
, Yoem and Akkrach rivers or streams.
Apart from that a total of 38 structures are projected: 14 overpasses, 16 underpasses, 5 road-tunnels (5×5 metre) and two pedestrian crossings.
There will be one single toll-barrier.
Some 15 million cubic metres (m
3) of earth will be moved during the construction: 7 million m
3 cuttings and 8 million m
3 embankments.
Costs
The projected costs for this bypass 2762 million
dirhams
The dirham, dirhem or dirhm ( ar, درهم) is a silver unit of currency historically and currently used by several Arab and Arab influenced states. The term has also been used as a related unit of mass.
Unit of mass
The dirham was a un ...
without tax,
averaging at 66,4 MDH/km.
Construction began in 2011 and the motorway has been open since 2016.
Sources and references
See also
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Mohammed VI Bridge
{{Highways in Morocco
Autoroutes in Morocco
Transport in Rabat
Ring roads