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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>On Wednesday 10 January, just days before the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament opens, (2023 AFCON), the Ivorian Prime Minister, Robert Beugre\u0301 Mambe\u0301, opened Abidjan\u2019s fourth bridge, the \u201cY4\u201d bypass, and the urban highways of Civil Prison and Dabou respectively, all built with funding from the African Development Bank Group \u2013 to traffic.<\/p>\n

An enthusiastic crowd joined several members of the government, heads of institutions, Bank Group executives and representatives of participating private sector construction firms for the opening of the bridge and roads. The roadworks are expected to ease traffic congestion in Co\u0302te d’Ivoire’s six-million-strong financial capital, known for being among the most gridlocked cities in Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the President of the Republic, we declare Abidjan\u2019s fourth bridge open to traffic,\u201d said Prime Minister Beugre\u0301 Mambe\u0301, alongside the President of the National Assembly, Adama Bictogo, and the President of the Senate, Kandia Camara. \u201cWe ask just one thing of motorists, and that is caution, because the work is not yet complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prime minister stressed that the new infrastructure would give Abidjan the status of a modern city.<\/p>\n

In the immediate term, the infrastructure will facilitate the movement of the tens of thousands of African football fans that have already begun arriving in Abidjan for AFCON2023 matches; Co\u0302te d’Ivoire is hosting the tournament from 13 January to 11 February. The bridges were built as part of the Abidjan Urban Transport Project (PTUA), which is, in turn, a component of the Master Plan for the Urban Transportation of Greater Abidjan.<\/p>\n

Nearly 1.4 kilometres in length, the fourth bridge spans Banco Bay \u2013 an arm of the Ebrie\u0301 Lagoon – to link Plateau and Adjame\u0301 municipalities and Yopougon via Atte\u0301coube\u0301. With two million inhabitants, Yopougon is the country\u2019s most densely populated municipality and a major industrial centre, while Adjame\u0301 and Plateau are the country’s main administrative and commercial hubs.The fourth bridge will expedite the movement of goods between the south of the city, where the port and Vridi industrial estate are located, and the west and north, where new industrial estates have been springing up rapidly, according to the country\u2019s Minister of Equipment and Road Maintenance, Ame\u0301de\u0301 Koffi Kouakou. The bridge, which features 24 tollbooths, is also a preferred transit route between Abidjan\u2019s port and international corridors serving the landlocked nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which use the port to gain access to the ocean.<\/p>\n

Close to 70,000 vehicles will use the bridge each day, the connected access roads for which will make daily travel easier for hundreds of thousands of Abidjan residents and help relieve congestion on existing roads. With a cost of \u20ac160 million, the bridge took 65 months, around five and a half years, to build.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese roads will help to ease traffic congestion in Abidjan,\u201d Minister Kouakou said. \u201cIt used to take residents of Yopougon two hours to travel from Plateau. Now it will take them five to 10 minutes to get home. The time saved will be invaluable!\u201d<\/p>\n

The African Development Bank provided around \u20ac600 million for the project and attracted other donors such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Global Environment Facility, which contributed \u20ac103 million and \u20ac6.4 million, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project involves infrastructure, the environment, social issues and a number of other aspects,\u201d remarked Jean-Noe\u0308l Ilboudo, division manager of the Bank’s transport infrastructure division for West Africa. \u201cIt is fully in line with the Bank’s five operational priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing out that 3,000 women will benefit from income-generating activities, he added: \u201cAll of this infrastructure will make traffic flow more smoothly, improve living conditions for the residents of Abidjan and reduce traffic accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ivorian Prime Minister also inaugurated several trunk roads. They include the western exit, which provides access to the corridor leading to San-Pe\u0301dro, the country’s second-largest port; the eastern exit, leading to Ghana and Burkina Faso; a roadway extending Boulevard Latrille, the main urban thoroughfare that links the city\u2019s east and west; and the city\u2019s northern bypass, known as \u201cY4\u201d. Located on the eastern side of the city, the latter roads ease traffic toward the town of Bingerville. A tunnel was also opened in Abobo, a densely populated municipality north of Abidjan.<\/p>\n

Koffi Emmanuel, a labourer working on the construction site of the fourth bridge, expressed pride in being able to help transform Abidjan’s image: \u201cWe’ve been building this bridge since 2018,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’re content with this initial small ceremony, because we know that the grand official opening is not far off now. I’m really happy because I know that my friends, my children and my grandchildren will cross this bridge, which now connects all of Abidjan, and because it shows that Co\u0302te d’Ivoire is opening up to the entire world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Road user Lassina Deme\u0301, who lives in Yopougon, indicated satisfaction in being able to cross the new bridge. \u201cBefore, it was difficult to cross here; it was quite scary,\u201d he said from astride his motorbike. \u201cNow we can cross without any problem. It used to take 20 minutes to cross this bridge, and now it takes just two.\u201d<\/p>\n

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