TULI BLOCK ROADS

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The Tuli Block Roads Project is a natural continuation of the Bank's support directed towards eliminating the major constraints to the area's emerging economic attraction to investors and will build on previous Bank involvement in the road subsector by strengthening the planning and maintenance capability of the Roads Department. The main objectives of the project are to : a) provide road links necessary for the development and integration of the Selebi-Phikwe area and its hinterland; b) strengthen the capacity of the RD to organize and carry out effective road maintenance at the increased level mandated by the expansion of the road network; and c) improve road planning and programming capability in anticipation of the seventh National Development Plan in 1991. Project components comprise the following : 1) construction of the Sefophe-Martin's Drift road, 134 km, to bitumen standard, and village access roads; 2) construction of the Bobonong-Lekkerpoet road, 66 km, including two short access roads to the villages of Molalatau and Mathathane; and 3) consulting services for construction supervision and for preparation of a study for a new maintenance management / organization system for roads, combined with a network planning study.