Ethiopia to reap benefits from eco-friendly light rail projects
E.G.Woldegebriel for Reuters
Tigrai Online April 24, 2013
The Addis Ababa Light Rail Project has been started by a Chinese firm, China Rail Engineering Corporation, which is also building the first phase of the new Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway
Taking advantage of its expanding hydropower and other renewable energy capacity, Ethiopia is building an extensive system of electric railways to ease urban traffic congestion and reduce carbon emissions and pollution, officials say.
The country is constructing nearly 2,400 km (1,500 miles) of national electric railways, plus 34 km (21 miles) of light rail in Addis Ababa as part of a five-year “Growth and Transformation” effort that ends in 2015.
Source: Reuters News
http://www.trust.org/item/20130423142157-cofa6/
The video report is about three months old and we would think the construction would have progressed much more in the past few monts.
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