The editorial staff of “Barlamane.com” | 12:17 – May 9, 2025
In a series of decrees published, the Moroccan authorities are acting a wave of large-scale urban reclassifications, focused on the modernization of roads in the regions of Fès-Meknes and Grand Casablanca. Through these apparently technical announcements, it is a strategic vision of the territory that is emerging, marked by a double imperative: opening up of peripheries and fluidification of major economic axes.
In Fez, the district of Zouagha is the subject of a major operation. A public utility decree authorizes the expropriation of plots intended for the development of a new structuring road section, designed to link rapid urbanization zones to the large existing axes. The project includes not only expanding the roadway, but also the establishment of sidewalks, public lighting and collective equipment. It is a question here of absorbing the fracture between the consolidated city and the informal extensions in full change.
-But it is in the region of Grand Casablanca, within the urban commune of Dar Bouazza (Province of Nouaceur), that the announcements have an even more significant dimension. Two published texts published jointly define a complete redevelopment of the DBR139 road, an essential artery connecting the Atlantic facade to peripheral housing areas. The way will be downgraded as a national road to be transformed into a structuring urban boulevard, lined with a planted walk and cycle paths, in a logic of landscape integration and soft mobility.
A second decree provides for the creation of a new connection, called DBT34, intended to disattension traffic from new residential areas. This secondary road, designed in coordination with the Casablanca urban agency and the services of the Ministry of Equipment, responds to the growing pressure exerted by the rapid urbanization of this coastal commune, one of the most dynamic in the kingdom.
Beyond the technical aspects, these projects reflect a transversal approach to the infrastructure policy. They mobilize multiple actors: local communities, sectoral ministries but also partners such as OCP, involved in other similar projects in the center of the country. The objective, clearly displayed by the authorities, is to rethink urban mobility in a logic of territorial equity, road safety and ecological transition.
