Maputo Ring Road: Marracuene-Macaneta bridge to be finished by June – Video

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Maputo Ring Road: Marracuene-Macaneta bridge to be finished by June – Video

9:25 CAT | 23 May 2016

The Maputo ring road bridge connecting Marracuene and Macaneta is scheduled for completion by end of next June. Bazílio Nzunga, head engineer on the Marracuene-Macaneta Bridge, says: “The work is ongoing for about a year now, and is 83 percent complete.”

Three hundred meters meters long and 11 wide, the Marracuene-Macaneta bridge is supported by 30 pillars, 18 of which rise 40 meters above the Incomati River.

When engineers and technicians of the Maputo-Sul company gathered at the corner of José Craveirinha and Avenida Marginal streets for another day’s work on the ring road recently, they were joined by Maputo’s Frelimo members of parliament.

Fulfilling their duty to supervise the achievements of the executive in public works, MPs took note of progress not only with regard to physical infrastructure but especially in the resettlement of families living along the borders of the new ring road.

Deputy Hermenegildo Infante said: “We are sure that the people who were moved today will not regret it.”

From its starting point near the Radison Blue hotel, crossing the Avenue Marginal’s four lanes to the Costa do Sol bridge, progress on the US$315 million project is indisputable, but the issue of resettling families affected by the works continues to concern Maputo-Sul.

The link between the Maputo ring road and the N4 Maputo-Witbank road is another matter of discussion among stakeholders.

As Ismael Sulemane puts it: “The circular road is partially complete, and resettlement is partially complete, too.”