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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.
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In Zambia's case these are road and/or rail routes which cross international borders to ports and which are the subject of international agreements on planning, use and management. They are not separate from the road and rail networks listed above, but are entities superimposed on those networks for strategic economic and trade development.
A road was made from Mululwe, the end of the Mulobezi Railway, along the banks of the Luampa River and then across the sandy plain to Mongu about the same time that this road was built and, thanks to the railway, was used more, until the 1950s. [3] The first Lusaka-Mongu Road was a dirt road with pontoon ferries across rivers such as the Kafue ...
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Development of the Copperbelt from the late 1920s had a big impact on overland routes. Copperbelt towns including Élisabethville (now 'Lubumbashi') in the province of Katanga in the Belgian Congo became the markets and chief source of supplies and employment for the Luapula-Mweru-Bangweulu region, and in turn their large fisheries (the largest in Northern Rhodesia) supplied the growing ...
The Luangwa Road (designated as D145 on Zambia's road network) [2] [3] is the road that provides access to the town of Luangwa. It is the only road used to enter and exit Luangwa. It starts at a junction with the T4 (Great East Road) just west of the Luangwa Bridge in Luangwa District, going southwards.