Review of Ethiopia's Road Sector Development Program (RSDP) in the past 16 years has reveled, the total road network expansion of the country has reached 85,966km, The Reporter reported.

When the program was launched in 1997, Ethiopia's total road coverage standing at 26,550km.

The overall performance of the Woreda roads sub-sector, however, has not been impressive in phase IV of the program which planned to construct 40,044km of road but only achieved 27,628km.

The total Federal road coverage has increased by 62 percent with 11,301 km of asphalt and 14,455km of gravel road.

The regional road network has also reached to 32,582km in the 16 years of the program.

The Road Sector Development Program (RSDP) which is launched in 1997 is now in its Phase IV of implementation stage since 2010.

Source: The Reporter