Tunisia spending budget on developing road network

Tunisia’s Ministry for Infrastructure, Housing and Coastal Development has a substantial budget set out for its road development programme. This schedule of works will be for the 2016-2020 period with some US$3.9 billion directed at road expansion and upgrade work. Of this budget, around $ 661 million will be spent on major highways and $712 million for major trunk roads. Meanwhile the roads in capital Tunis will see spending of some £406.8 million while $381.3 million will be directed towards road maintena
September 30, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Tunisia’s Ministry for Infrastructure, Housing and Coastal Development has a substantial budget set out for its road development programme. This schedule of works will be for the 2016-2020 period with some US$3.9 billion directed at road expansion and upgrade work. Of this budget, around $ 661 million will be spent on major highways and $712 million for major trunk roads. Meanwhile the roads in capital Tunis will see spending of some £406.8 million while $381.3 million will be directed towards road maintenance and $228.8 million will be spent on developing rural roads.
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