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A brief of Roads
net in Iraq
The general land road net was developed from earth
caravan roads at the beginning of the establishment
of the Iraqi government, to a
new network of paved roads in addition to
construct a large number of new bridges
all over the country.
The total length of the
external road net (outside the border of Baghdad
mayoralty and municipality) is about 42000 Km
including:-
The expressways (the expressway No (1) and
Abu Garib expressway).
The arterial roads, which links the centers
of the governorates and boarder exits .
The secondary roads, which links between the
province and district.
The rural roads, which links the housing
complexes in the countries and villigies with the
secondary and arterial roads.
The following table
declares the length of the different types of paved
roads network up to 2004.
|
No |
Class of Road |
Length (Km) |
| 1. |
The
expressways |
1084 |
| 2. |
The
arterial roads |
11000 |
| 3. |
The
secondary roads |
15200 |
| 4. |
Rural
roads |
3700 |
| 5. |
The
border roads |
11000 |
(SCRB) is going on executing the plan of roads
construction specially the rural roads to approach
the international criteria in respected of roads
length according to the population density
(100 p/Km2 of population density needs 1
km/km2 of roads).
The roads net also
includes 1200 fixed bridges located on the Tigris &
Euphrates rivers and its tributaries, valleys and
railroads in addition to (60) floating bridges.
(scrb)
is going on constructing the new bridges and
replacing the floating bridges with the fixed ones.
This huge net of roads and bridges most of which are
being constructed during the seventieth and
eightieth decades are in need of continuous
maintenance works to endure the axle loads and
resists the environmental conditions since this net
work are being neglected particularly in maintenance
during the latest two decades as a result of wars,
and no funds had been insured to maintain them,
since 2001 (SCRB) started the implementation of its
plan to maintain the roads
(As 80% of the existing roads were in bad condition
and in need of maintenance).
The Ministry of Construction and Housing through
(scrb)
yearly prepares a plan for the maintenance of roads
and Bridges all over the country and the execution
shall be accordingly and as per a schedule of
priorities, importancy and available funds. |
