N 4 (Senegal)
N 4 in Senegal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operator: | Senegal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Start of the street: | Diourbel , junction from the N 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of street: | south of Ziguinchor , border with Guinea-Bissau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall length: | 337 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Requirement for use: | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course of the road
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The N 4 is one of the national roads from the west to the south of Senegal . Since it leads the traffic on the Trans-Gambia Highway through the transit country Gambia , it is also known as Trans- Gambienne .
The course of the road begins in the center of the city of Diourbel, which is centrally located in Senegal, at a junction from the N 3 . The route originally began further south in Kaolack , which has now become an important stage. The end of the N4 is in the southwest south of Ziguinchor on the border with Guinea-Bissau and the route up to then is 337 kilometers long. Without the 25-kilometer transit route in Gambia, it measures 312 kilometers.
The N4 is the shortest north-south connection from the heartland of Senegal to the fertile and relatively densely populated landscape of the Casamance, which is isolated south of Gambia . However, traffic on the transit route through the Gambia has to cross a state and customs border twice and is stopped by the Gambia , which can only be crossed by ferry and, since January 2019, on the Senegambia Bridge , which is subject to toll .
The road was built in the 1950s. Whether the long-distance traffic actually ran on the Transgambienne or whether it preferred the much longer bypass via Tambacounda in the east of the country on the N 1 and the N 6 , essentially depended on the political relations between Senegal and Gambia. When the Gambian transit fees increased a hundredfold overnight in early 2016, the Trans-Gambienne was downright boycotted. After the change of power in Gambia in 2017, the situation eased considerably.
The Dakar-Lagos Highway , one of the Trans-African Highways , runs over two sections of the N4 . The first section extends from the N1 in Kaolack to the junction of the N 5 on the left southern bank of the Saloum (4 km) and the second section extends from the confluence of the N5 in Bignona to the border to Guinea-Bissau (47 km). Between these two sections, the Dakar-Lagos Highway follows the course of the N5.
Individual evidence
- ↑ N 4 on Google maps
- ^ Editions Karthala, 2002. Le Sénégal contemporain; construction de la route transgambienne, p. 358 in the Google book search
- ↑ On the Transgambienne it is 253 km from Kaolack to Ziguinchor, via Tambacounda it is 679 km.
- ↑ Radio France Internationale (RFI) from April 12, 2016: Sénégal: le trafic routier vers la Casamance ne passe plus par la Gambie
- ↑ Farafenni: le soleil online from February 27, 2017: Un vent nouveau souffle sur la Transgambienne