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Tanzania is Building Largest Road Infrastructure Network
The advent of the SGR promises to drastically reduce travel time and enhance efficiency, heralding a new era of connectivity for Tanzania and its neighbors.
A quick trip to Tanzania’s largest commercial capital Dar Es Salaam gives a glimpse into the country’s ambitious agenda to modernize its transport infrastructure to enable the efficient movement of people and goods.
From Julius Nyerere International Airport to the bustling streets of downtown Dar Es Salaam, and across all major municipal councils, the government has been conducting a complete overhaul of road transport, replacing old road infrastructure with new, modern road systems.
One particular development that catches one’s attention are the new flyovers, a bus rapid transit line, and an array of road construction activities that include everything from upgrading and renovating existing roads, to building and modernizing bus rapid transit lines, and a planned railway line.
Strolling the streets of Kipawa, Keko, Gerezani, all through to Mchafukoge, Temeke and Jangwani, Dar Es Salaam infrastructure development is nothing short of inspiration to the rest of the region.
The driving force behind this monumental endeavor lies in the vision of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who has steered the nation towards a path of progress since assuming office.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has brought dramatic changes.
Although some of the projects being implemented currently date back to Magufuli’s era, President Samia has brought dramatic changes to the country that had previously seen investors withdraw from the country when Magufuli was at the helm of the Tanzanian presidency.
Even President Samia admitted when she took over the presidency that the previous leadership had robbed Tanzania of its potential to attract and keep investors safe into the country.
"We should offer incentives to strategic investors and dismantle hurdles that discourage investors from doing business in the country," she said in her maiden address to the National Assembly in the capital Dodoma in April 2021.
President Samia said at the time that there was bureaucracy in issuing relevant permits to prospective investors, and red tape in providing land to investors, insisting that those malpractices had to end if Tanzania wanted to attract investors.
She was right. There was no way Tanzania was going to fast-track its economic development if it continued to implement hostile investment policies and sidelined investors that it desperately needed.
Indeed, President Samia has reversed that. When she took over, she restored friendly administrative procedures that attracted investors, and implemented investment reforms that built confidence in Tanzania’s investors.
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