TANZANIA National Roads Agency (TANROADS) yesterday signed a 177bn/- contract with a Chinese company, paving way for construction of interchange roads at Ubungo junction in Dar es Salaam, effective next month.
TANROADS Chief Executive Officer, Eng
Patrick Mfugale, said the construction works expected to take 30 months
for completion are scheduled to commence next month under the China
Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
He said the project whose actual cost is
177,424,978,303/42 is part of implementation of the Dar es Salaam Urban
Transport Improvement Project (DUTP).
According to Engineer Mfugale, DASAN
Consultants Company from South Korea and Tanzania’s AFRISA Consulting
Company Limited have already signed the contract of 3,412,983 US dollars
(8,286,234,524/-) as the project’s consulting engineers. “Ubungo
interchange joins three roads -Morogoro, Mandela and Sam Nujoma.
The Morogoro Road alone carries about
65,000 vehicles daily and so, the construction of this project will help
to ease traffic congestion at the area as the city gate-way and
economic booster,” said Engineer Mfugale.
He said the DUTP project will also
involve the third and fourth phases of the bus rapid transit along the
Nyerere, Sam Nujoma and Ali Hassan Mwinyi roads. Eng Mfugale noted that a
feasibility study for Ubungo interchange project was carried out and
completed in December 2015 by Hamza Association Company Limited of Egypt
and Advanced Engineering Solutions Limited of Tanzania at 440,540 US
dollars (about 1bn/-).
According to the design, the Ubungo
project will be built in three levels, with the bottom lane used for
vehicles on Morogoro Road and all from left side. The second lane will
be used by vehicles directed by traffic lights while the third is for
vehicles passing along the Mandela and Sam Nujoma Roads.
All roads will have six ways, including
two for the bus rapid transit, said the TANROADS boss, adding that the
bidders for the project were invited through the January 20, 2016
advertisement that attracted 48 interested companies, with 14 bids
received on August 18, 2016.
CCECC Chief Executive Officer Jiang Yigao promised timely completion of work
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