Existed: 1998 – present West end: Rabat Length 190 km | History: Completed in 1999 East end: Fez Constructed 1998 | |
Major cities Fes, Rabat, Meknes, Khemisset | ||
The Rabat–Fes expressway is an expressway in Morocco; its designated identity marker is A2. Its total length is 190 km.
Map of A2, Morocco
The Rabat–Fes expressway consists of a four-lane expressway of the non motorway-sort before the toll station at Sidi Allal El Bahraoui. It takes its origin at the interchange with the Rabat-Tangier expressway. After the toll station, motorway regulations apply. The road roughly follows the old RP1 past Tiflet and to Khémisset, before falling down into the valley of the Oued Sebou. The road makes a bypass past Meknes, serving it with two exits, before reaching the target city of Fez. The road will be extended eastward all the way to Oujda, creating the main East-West cross-country link.
The toll income of this road was 146 million dirham (2006: 117 MDh), ranking 4th in toll-revenues in Morocco
The road was constructed during a total of four years, between 1995 and 1999, and opened in three phases:
The extension of this road, the Fes-Oujda expressway completes the A2 linking of Rabat to Oujda. It was the first road where the ticket system for payment was implemented along the full stretch of the motorway.