The progress of the works on the high speed rail line which will link Tangier to Casablanca is around 70%, according to the director general of the National Railways Office (ONCF), Mohamed Rabie Khlie. Testing will take place in 2016 and the line is expected to be commissioned in 2017, he confirmed.
The project has been delayed due to the slowness imposed by the expropriation of the areas crossed by the tracks. Some two hundred homes in Tangier were redeployed into refurbished housing estates by ONCF. This Moroccan TGV project was 90% complete by Moroccan companies. “We preferred a slow project progress by combining national companies there, instead of entrusting this project to foreign companies and save time,” said Mohamed Rabie Khlie.
ONCF expects a traffic of 6-7 million passengers for the high speed trains in the first year of service.
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