President Mugabe is expected to launch the official start of the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu highway. The project is expected to cost at least $1 billion dollars and will be underatken by Geiger International of Austria under a 25-year Build Operate and Transfer model.
Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Dr Joram Gumbo yesterday said:
It will be a big day because the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway was long overdue after having been delayed by battles, that at one, time spilled into the courts,
The project will cost just under a billion at about $998 million and the contractor will tell the President the time lines for completing the project and the President will also say something during the official launch of the project.
…We are happy that the dualisation will finally start and though it may not totally end road accidents along the highway, we believe for those drivers who are careful, the number of accidents will go down
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