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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Iraq
Index
The total length of Iraq's network of paved roads almost
doubled between 1979 and 1985, to 22,397 kilometers, augmented by
an additional 7,800 kilometers of unpaved secondary and feeder
roads. In 1987 Iraq's major road project was a 1,000 kilometerlong segment of a six-lane international express highway that
would eventually link the Persian Gulf states with the
Mediterranean. In Iraq, the road would stretch from the Jordanian
border through Ar Rutbah to Tulayah near An Najaf, then to the
southern Iraqi town of Ash Shaykh ash Shuyukh, and finally to the
Kuwaiti border at Safwan. Construction was underway in the late
1980s. Plans were also being made for another highway, which
would link Baghdad with the Turkish border via Kirkuk and Mosul.
There was progress as well on a program to build 10,000
kilometers of rural roads.
Data as of May 1988
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