East-West Motorway
The east-west motorway ( French Autoroute Est-Ouest , Arabic الطريق السيار شرق-غرب, DMG aṭ-Ṭarīq as-saiyār šarq-ġarb ), mostly abbreviated as A1, is the highway that crosses all of Algeria from east to west . It is the Algerian part of a North African traffic artery that will connect Morocco , Algeria, Tunisia and Libya ("Transmaghrébine").
The 1216 km long, three-lane motorway runs parallel to the coast of the Mediterranean at a distance of mostly 40 to 70 km ; it only reaches the suburbs on the coast near Algiers . It begins at the Tunisian border at El Kala in the province of El Tarf , passes the cities of Annaba , Skikda , Constantine , Sétif , Algiers, Chlef , Oran and Tlemcen and ends at the Moroccan border at Maghnia in the province of Tlemcen .
The east-west motorway was essentially built between 2007 and 2015; two short sections near Algiers were carried out in 1990 and 2003. The western section between Algiers and the border with Morocco was created by CITIC - CRCC , a Chinese consortium. The Japanese group COJAAL was commissioned with the eastern section. Only the last 84 km in the province of El Tarf between Dréan and the Tunisian border are not quite finished due to technical and organizational problems of the COOJAAL. It is expected that this section will also be completed in 2019, although the connection on the Tunisian side will still be missing.
Between 1990 and 2004, work on the small sections was financed with the help of international banks ( European Investment Bank , Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development , African Development Bank ). In 2005, President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika decided to finance all further work on the east-west motorway from the current budget.
Until now, the use of the motorway was toll-free. However, it is planned to collect a toll of 1.20 DA per km from November 2019 (corresponds to 0.87 euro cents as of August 30, 2018). The first toll stations have already been installed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Algeria wants to improve the transport infrastructure . Article from December 29, 2015 on gtai.de
- ^ Projet Autoroute Est-Ouest en Algérie on Algerie-Monde.com
- ↑ a b Autoroute Est-Ouest - Histoire. Agence Nationale des Autoroutes (archive.wikiwix.com)
- ↑ Autoroute Est-Ouest: réception du dernier tronçon à El Tarf in 2019. Article from June 12, 2018 on dzmotion.com
- ↑ Péage sur l'autoroute est-ouest: Opérationnel dès novembre prochain. Article from August 26, 2018 on ElMoudjahid.com