Tanzania’s Members of Parliament have urged the government to speed up the conversion of the Central Railway Line to standard gauge, insisting that it was the only way for the country to attain realistic economic development.
Debating on the 2016/17 budget estimates of the Transport Ministry, MP James Mbatia, advised the government to seek a soft grant from development partners in order to start immediately the construction of the standard gauge railway line within the three years.
The USD 7.6 billion project was posponed several times.
The line runs west from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika via Dodoma, with a branch that leads to Mwanza on Lake Victoria.
The standard gauge railway line will be constructed from Dar es Salaam to Isaka in northern Tanzania and Kigali in Rwanda with a link to Burundi running from Keza to Musongati through Gitega. Another line will be constructed from Mpanda to Lake Tanganyika to link our country with eastern part of DR Congo.
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