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“The construction sites opened in Algiers aim to reduce traffic jams”
TRAFFIC JAMS Public works
The Minister of Public Works and Basic Infrastructure, Lakhdar Rekhroukh, said the day before yesterday that the various public works projects currently being carried out in the capital, particularly in the road sector, aim to reduce traffic jams.
“The construction sites currently open in the capital, whether it concerns the road network, the railways or the Algiers metro, are essentially aimed at reducing traffic jams,” Mr. Rekhroukh told the press on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of the ordinary parliamentary session at the National People’s Assembly (APN), specifying that these construction sites were launched as part of a “vast program dedicated to this effect.”
The minister added that several roads, such as those currently being built in the municipalities of El Achour, Cheraga and Saoula, will soon be received and opened, which will help reduce traffic jams in the short term.
In the medium term, several railway and metro projects will be launched with the same aim, assured the minister, stressing the importance of public transport in reducing traffic jams.
Furthermore, the minister inquired last Thursday during a working visit to the wilaya of Tebessa, about the progress of the works of renewal, modernization and doubling of the mining railway line connecting the regions of Djebel Onk (South of Tebessa) and Oued Kebrit (administrative limits of the wilaya of Souk Ahras). Expressing his satisfaction with the progress of the works, Mr. Rekhroukh indicated, in a statement to the press, that the mining railway lines are the subject of “great attention on the part of the country’s high authorities” and of “periodic and personal monitoring” by the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
He stressed that these projects are part of the development of all railway networks and mining lines, both in the east of the country (phosphate mine) and in the west (iron mine).
In the east of the country, the mining line that extends over a linear length of 422 km, from the wilaya of Annaba to the mining site of Bled El Hadba (wilaya of Tébessa), has been subdivided into 5 sections, including two in the wilaya of Tébessa where the first segment of 152 km, including renovation and doubling of the track between Oued Kebrit and Djebel Onk, is completed. Regarding the second section, which consists of building a railway bypassing the capital of the wilaya, through the area of Tanoukla (commune of El Ma Labiod), over 43 km, work has begun and should be received by the end of 2025, while the line connecting the mines of Djebel Onk and Bled El Hadba should be delivered next September, according to the minister.
Manel Z.