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In the 1970s Zambia had one of the best highway networks in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1991 it was estimated by the National Road Fund Agency (NRFA) that 80 percent of the road network had deteriorated and out of total road assets valued at US$2.3 billion, US$400 million had been lost due to neglected maintenance.
The T2 is a trunk road in Zambia.The road runs from the Tunduma border with Tanzania via Mpika, Kabwe and Lusaka to the Chirundu border with Zimbabwe. [1] [2] The road is the longest route of the country, as it is approximately 1,155 kilometres (718 mi).
The T1 or Lusaka–Livingstone Road is the main highway of the Southern Province of Zambia. [1] It begins 55 kilometres south of the city of Lusaka (10 kilometres south of Kafue) and heads south-west to the principal tourist destination, Victoria Falls in Livingstone, via Mazabuka, Monze, Choma and Kalomo, measuring approximately 430 kilometres (267 mi).
On Zambia's road network, the M19 is designated as the short 3-kilometre road through Kazungula, [1] [2] from the junction with the M10 southwards to the Kazungula Bridge on the Zambezi River, where it crosses the river into the nation of Botswana. It becomes the A33 road of Botswana to Kasane and Nata on the other side of the river.
Road signs in Zambia are based on the SADC Road Traffic Signs Manual, [1] [2] [3] a document designed to harmonise traffic signs in member states of the Southern Africa Development Community. Zambia drives on the left .
The original Great North Road of Zambia consisted of three current routes, namely the T1 road, T2 road and M1 road, from Livingstone, through Choma, Lusaka, Kabwe, Serenje, Mpika and Kasama, to Mbala. But today, Zambia's Great North Road is formed by only one route, which is the T2 road from Lusaka, through Kabwe, Serenje and Mpika, to Nakonde.
It is the only institution authorised to issue vehicle training and driving licences in Zambia. [1] [2] [3] The agency also ensures that there is road safety in the country. Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. [4]
Chipata, the capital of the Eastern Province was an early outpost of the British colonial administration as Fort Jameson when Zambia was Northern Rhodesia.Like most of the Eastern Province, it had much easier access to Malawi, then the British protectorate of Nyasaland, and to the Mozambique ports of Quelimane and Beira than to the rest of Northern Rhodesia, and so most trade and communication ...