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Freeman Razemba-Senior Reporter
GOVERNMENT will soon attend to major roads in and around Harare, which are in bad condition.
Yesterday, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona led a delegation to assess some city roads.
The minister, accompanied by senior officials and engineers, visited roads in Braeside, Arcadia, Craneborne, Hatfield, Waterfalls, Sunningdale, Houghton Park and Southerton, among other areas.
Following the assessment, Government will soon attend to these roads as some of them need to be constructed, while others need maintenance.
Minister Mhona is expected to tour more roads in the city this week and will give a comprehensive statement after these tours.
This development comes after the Government collaborated with local authorities to address the state of roads across the country through the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme.
The ERRP2 initiative aims to repair roads in both urban and rural areas that have been damaged by the recent heavy rains.
President Mnangagwa last year extended the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme Phase 2 (ERRP2), reaffirming the Government’s commitment to building a modern, interconnected transport network that positions Zimbabwe as a regional logistics hub of choice.
Initially, launched in March 2021 as a short-term response to widespread road damage caused by years of neglect and extreme weather, ERRP2 has since evolved into a long-term national infrastructure revival initiative driving economic transformation in line with Vision 2030.
The extension is expected to accelerate the construction of new roads, the rehabilitation of existing routes and the upgrading of drainage and safety infrastructure, particularly along strategic economic corridors that connect Zimbabwe with the broader SADC.
Recently, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development established dedicated provincial hotlines to facilitate the immediate reporting and repair of road defects across the country.
This initiative mandates provincial road engineers to receive direct reports from the public, aiming to streamline the maintenance of regional, primary, secondary and tertiary road networks.
In a statement released recently, the ministry urged the public to report serious road defects requiring urgent attention within their respective provinces.
Plans are also at an advanced stage by the ministry to create another platform for interacting with the citizens on what needs to be done over road maintenance and construction, in addition to the hotlines for road repair attention that were recently circulated.
