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Freeman Razemba
Senior Reporter
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona and Minister of State for Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Senator Charles Tawengwa, today led a delegation on a tour of road works being carried out in Glen View high density suburb in Harare.
This comes as the Government has moved in to construct some of the roads that link towns and cities in some provinces, while the Mbudzi Interchange in Harare, now named Trabablas Interchange, is 90 percent complete and set to be completed by May 31.
Other major roads are also being constructed countrywide.
The US$88 million interchange project, located at the intersection of Simon Mazorodze Road, Chitungwiza Road and High Glen Road, is a key infrastructure development aimed at alleviating traffic congestion in southern Harare. It features 15 bridges which have all been completed.
The traffic interchange is expected to significantly improve traffic flow, reduce transit times and minimise accidents in the area.
The roads being constructed in the Glen View Area also link with the interchange.
The Ministers were accompanied by Zanu PF Harare provincial chairman Cde Godwills Masimirembwa, ZANU PF National Women’s League Secretary for External Relations Cde Betty Kaseke, CMED (Pvt) Ltd managing director Mr Davison Mhaka and senior Government officials.
The road which they toured is along 11th Avenue in Glen View 3 and it links Patrenda Way and Willowvale Road.
In an interview, Minister Mhona said, “We are so excited as a Ministry. When we started the project of rehabilitating our roads, being championed by our great leader Dr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, we were talking about descending to the high density suburbs, and this is what we are witnessing today.
“We are in Glen View, and we have been saying to the people, we don’t attend to trunk roads only, which was the mandate of the Ministry, to only superintend over trunk roads. But we have witnessed that over two decades, roads were neglected when it comes to high density suburbs.
“And his Excellency said we cannot continue watching, we have to go down to the grassroots and attend to the roads. And today, we are witnessing this magnificent infrastructure rehabilitation programme, which is not intended to buttress the issues to do with the elections that are before us.
“But we are saying you see this kind of work going on. And what we have done, a deliberate ploy in the Ministry, is to say all the roads that are leading from the greater city right into the high density suburbs, this is what we are doing.”
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