Vehicle population in Botswana continues to grow

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Vehicle population in Botswana continued to grow in the past five years, Botswana’s Minister of Transport and Communications Tshenolo Mabeo said on Friday. cars
“In the past five years, vehicle population in Botswana grew by 50 percent,” Mabeo revealed in his speech during the groundbreaking ceremony of Botswana’s first ever interchange in Francistown, situated some 430 km north of the country’s capital, Gaborone.
Interchange is a technical term meaning a separated grade junction used to ease congestion of traffic.
According to Mabeo, vehicle population in Botswana was just over 204,000 five years ago. But now, Mabeo said the vehicle population in this diamond rich nation of Botswana has grown to nearly 320,000.
“The growth was mainly from private vehicles, public service transportation and heavy commercial vehicles which put pressure on some of our roads,” said the minister.
It is worth noting that the decision to build road infrastructure of this magnitude emanated from a need to address the growth of the number of vehicles that transit Francistown periodically and on day-to-day basis through the AI and A3 road networks, he said.
Botswana is a landlocked country. And commercial trucks from countries like South Africa in the south, Zambia in the east and Zimbabwe situated northeast of Botswana frequent the southern African country in transit.
Such a development has called on the government to commit itself to improve the country’s road network in order to facilitate both the country’s and regional economic growth.
“The government has made a commitment to invest billions of pula in road infrastructure to ensure that the nation has access to those the much-needed government services,” he said.
The interchange is expected to be completed by August next year. Enditem

Source: Xinhua

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