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- Golden Stream-Big Falls-Guatemala Border Road Rehabilitation Project
Golden Stream-Big Falls-Guatemala Border Road Rehabilitation Project
Belize
Borrower | Belize |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Transportation |
Approved | 10.12.2002 |
Signed | 21.08.2003 |
Status | Completed |
Loan Administrator | KFAED |
Executing Agency | Ministry of Works (MW) |
Co-financiers | KFAED, Government |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 6.00 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 23.00 |
Government is in the process of implementing a national strategy to rehabilitate the primary road network and has succeeded in paving most of the key stretches. The project will carry out the following:
- paving of two remaining unpaved portions, totalling 50 km, of the Southern Highway between Golden Stream and the Guatemalan border;
- construction of drainage systems and culverts;
- repair of bridges; and installation of signalling and safety devices.