Roads Company Website - via Wikimedia CommonsCAIRO – 28 December 2018: In a mere few days, 2018 will end and 2019 will begin, and with new begins, it is always a good idea to take a look back and review the events of the year in hindsight.Arguably one of the proudest moments for Egyptians was when Egypt jumped from 118th to the 75th globally, as a result of the National Road Project, which was put in place in 2014, according to Egyptian Minister of Transport Hisham Arafat.“Egypt has climbed from the 118th in 2014 in the global roads quality ranking to 75th in 2018,” Arafat revealed in September 2018.When the project first started, according to the Minister, Egypt had only 24,000 kilometers of roads nationwide and was ranked in the top 10 for annual number of road accidents. The project will include fixing and developing already existing roads and bridges, as well as building new ones.At a cost of LE 36 billion, Egypt will increase its roads in kilometres from 24,000 to about 29,000. The 24.5% year-on-year decrease between 2016 and 2017 have left the number of incidents at 11,100; in 2016, Egypt witnessed 14,700 traffic accidents.Furthermore, the intensity of collisions have decreased. In 2016, 5,300 individuals lost their lives as a result of road traffic accidents and 18,600 were injured; meanwhile, in 2017, 3,700 individuals lost their lives and 14,000 were injured. Although not at all perfect, there is a significant improvement that came hand-in-hand with the road improvements.

Source: Egypt Today December 28, 2018 11:37 UTC