HIGHWAY SECTOR II

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The Second Highway Sector Loan Project will support a 3-year US$230.7 million equivalent Highway Sector Program covering the period from mid-1985 to the end of 1988. The program will contain all road construction, upgrading, strengthening, rehabilitation and works to be undertaken by the Borrower in the program period on the public road network of the country, as well as legislative and government measures destined to improve the efficiency of the road transport industry. It will encompass: (i) investments in new road construction, and in rural road upgrading and rehabilitation as well as (ii) a proper level of routine and periodic maintenance of the entire road network of the country. The program will further involve (iii) training of road maintenance staff at all levels and the introduction of personnel management systems for such staff and (iv) legislative changes to deregulate the road transport industry and provide it with a system of freight allocation based on market force competition. Finally, it will include (v) a program of enforcing vehicle load limits; and (vi) the preparation of a national transport plan.