Budget 2018-19 underscores that building a strategic and modern infrastructure remains a prerequisite towards creating the appropriate physical infrastructure that measures up to the vision of a future of modernity, high income and smart living which will eventually contribute to help the country attain the status of a high income economy.
To this effect, Rs 37 billion has been earmarked for developing transport infrastructure over the next three years in line to Government's venture to modernising land transport which include the implementation of the Metro Express project. Phase 1 of the Metro Express project linking Port Louis to Rose Hill will be operational in September 2019 and by September 2021, an additional 13 kms linking Rose Hill to Curepipe will be opened. Other cognate road infrastructure development projects for seamless transfers between the two modes of transport will also be carried out. In the same vein, the construction of the Victoria Urban Terminal project is also expected by February 2019 and the construction of two additional urban terminals at Immigration Square and Rose Hill will follow.
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