President of Republic Launches Several Service Projects To Contribute to Improving Transportation Sector Performance
On 15 March, in Nouakchott, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El-Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, supervised the inauguration of several service projects that will contribute to enhancing the urban transport in the capital and providing safety conditions on the national road network by taking measures to ensure that the loads specified for each truck are not exceeded.
As part of the launch of these service projects, the President of the Republic gave the go-ahead for 50 buses to enter service within the various urban transport routes in the city of Nouakchott, 40 of which are medium-sized buses, each of which can accommodate 100 passengers, and ten small-sized buses, each of which can accommodate 22 passengers. These buses are the second batch to be launched within the framework of continuing the implementation of the transportation mobility project in Nouakchott by 2026.
His Excellency, the President of the Republic, received explanations on the quality and capacity of these buses and the addition they will provide to efforts to provide appropriate urban transportation in line with the requirements of the development of the city of Nouakchott, its expansion, and the spacing of its neighborhoods, and the growing need of its population for a transportation network that provides them with this service in appropriate conditions and at the required speed.
As part of his supervision of the launch of these service projects, the President of the Republic inaugurated a road transport station at the northern entrance to the city of Nouakchott, called the “North Station”, dedicated to facilitating the transportation of people on the Nouakchott-Nouadhibou axis.
The inauguration of this station marks the start of its operation and the operation of a station with the same specifications in the city of Zouerate, in Tiris Zemmour.
These two stations were built on an area of 15,000 square meters, and each of them has 11 offices, a waiting hall for passengers, a ticket network, a parking lot for buses and vehicles, a café, and some other service facilities.
Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani also gave, from the northern entrance to the city of Nouakchott, the go-ahead for the launch of truckload weighing centers at the three entrances of the city of Nouakchott.
Each center includes a set of steel plates and truckload sensors, ten surveillance cameras, a control room, and a computer equipped with a program that allows determining the quality of the goods, their total weight, and the type of truck.