Tripoli – Cape Town Highway

The Tripoli - Windhoek ( Cape Town ) Highway No. 3 is the Trans - African highways, the international road network, which develop the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ( UNECA ), the African Development Bank ( ADB) and the African Union. The route has a length of 10,808 km, has the longest of all TAHs missing sections, needing most of constructing new roads.

South Africa was not originally included in this route because of apartheid; But one has the extension to Cape Town also integrated. This highway is still referred to in some documents as " Tripoli - Windhoek Highway".

Route

The route passes through Libya, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, the westernmost tip of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Namibia and South Africa. Only in Libya, Cameroon, Angola, Namibia and South Africa, there are paved national roads, which can serve as a route for the highway. Currently, there are of southern Libya through Chad in the near N'Djamena - more than 2000 km - only sand tracks, and between Salo in the Central African Republic and Ouesso in the Republic of Congo, there is no way ANY KIND

The northern part

The Tripoli - Windhoek ( Cape Town ) Highway has not a high priority in its northern portion by the Sahara between Tripoli and N'Djamena, as the Trans -Saharan Highway ( TAH 2) further west as an alternate north-south route more use place. It is said that Libya has more interest in a compound in the Niger, which would connect to the Trans -Saharan Highway. If you add to look at the lawlessness and instability potential in the border region between Libya and Chad, it is clear that this northern part of the road is likely to expand as the last in the whole network, which can take decades.

The southern part

The southern section between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cape Town, on the other hand, an important road for this region and is supported by the Southern African Development Community ( SADC) sponsored as they already trade routes of the organization, such as the Trans - Caprivi Highway and the trade route from Walvis Bay to Maputo connects. The paving of existing roads is at the northern Angola, but of Ngage in Angola through Namibia and South Africa to Cape Town, the streets are already paved and all in satisfactory to good condition.

Midsection

The middle section of northern Angola to Cameroon is most needed, as it would represent the first paved link from West to South Africa and thus stimulate trade between these areas, the only by air and by sea is possible. Actually, however, this Part is completely absent and the planned route of the Central African Republic to the Republic of Congo is a very remote and difficult terrain, as well as through the rain forest in Sanghabecken. In addition, this route would severely interfere with a relatively pristine natural area with a number of nature reserves.

An alternative route from Yaounde in Cameroon to Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, which allow the transport of goods between the south and the west of the continent, yet less intrusive in nature would, already proposed. You would pass through Lambaréné in Gabon and Dolisie in the Republic of Congo. The traffic from the south would branch off in Yaounde on the western part of the Lagos - Mombasa highway and the traffic to the east and north would be led on the paved route from Yaoundé to Garoua - Boulai on the border between Cameroon and the Central African Republic. In addition to the shorter length for the traffic from South to West, this route would have other advantages: It is already handled international traffic here on, it runs through densely populated and economically active areas, they would Gabon and via lane their capital Libreville to the trunk road network tie and they would run near Mbini in Equatorial Guinea and the Atlantic ports of Douala and Pointe- Noire. In addition, a larger part of this route is already paved and the parts that are still gravel or muddy roads, are important national roads and are therefore well- paved soon anyway.

Between Dolisie and Matadi there is still a mostly paved an alternative route through Pointe- Noir and Cabinda, which crosses the Congo on a bridge and not via ferry, as between Brazzaville and Kinshasa.

Swell

  • African Development Bank / United Nations Economic Commission For Africa: " Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links: Volume 2: Description of Corridors". ( Version 29 February 2008 at the Internet Archive ) August 14, 2003 ( English) ( PDF, 8 KB)
  • Michelin Motoring and Tourist Map: "Africa North and West ". Michelin Travel Publications, Paris ( 2000) ( English)

Cairo -Dakar Highway | Algiers- Lagos Highway | Tripoli - Windhoek ( Cape Town ) Highway | Cairo - Gaborone ( Cape Town ) Highway | Dakar - N'Djamena - Highway | N'Djamena - Djibouti Highway | Dakar Lagos Highway | Lagos - Mombasa Highway | Beira- Lobito Highway

  • Trans - African Highways
  • Traffic (Libya)
  • Traffic (Chad)
  • Traffic (Cameroon)
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  • Transport ( Republic of Congo)
  • Road in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Traffic (Angola)
  • Road in Namibia
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