Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road

Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road is a road in the Central Region of Uganda, connecting the towns of Mpigi in Mpigi District to Gombe in Butambala District, Kabulasoke and Maddu in Gomba District and Sembabule in Sembabule District.[1]

Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road
Route information
Length84 mi (135 km)
HistoryDesignation in 2014
Expected completion in 2017
Major junctions
East endMpigi
 Gombe
Kanoni
Kabulasoke
Maddu
West endSembabule
Highway system
Roads in Uganda

Location

The road starts at Mpigi, a town of 44,274,[2] about 35 kilometres (22 mi), southwest of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.[3] The road continues through four central Ugandan districts to end at Ssembabule, a total distance of about 128 kilometres (80 mi).[4] The coordinates of the road near Kanoni are 0°10'26.0"N, 31°55'27.0"E (Latitude:0.173889; Longitude:31.924167).[5]

Upgrading to bitumen

In October 2010, Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA), a parastatal, publicly announced that in 2011, it would begin upgrading 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) of 32 different national roads in the country, from unsealed gravel surface to class II bitumen. This road was one of the roads on that list.[6]

The road was divided into two sections; (a) Mpigi–Kanoni Road 64 kilometres (40 mi) and (b) Kanoni–Sembabule Road 71 kilometres (44 mi). Work on both sections started in 2014, with expected completion in the second half of 2017. A related road, the Sembale–Villa Maria Road 38 kilometres (24 mi) is under the same contract and work on that road is expected to begin in September 2015, with completion expected in 2018.[7] Finding is 100 percent provided by the Ugandan government.[8]

See also

References
  1. Monitor Reporter (2 February 2016). "Economy stable because of NRM, says Museveni". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  2. UBOS, . (27 August 2014). "The Population of The Regions of the Republic of Uganda And All Cities And Towns of More Than 15,000 Inhabitants". Citypopulation.de Quoting Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Retrieved 27 July 2015.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. GFC, . (27 July 2015). "Road Distance Between Kampala And Mpigi With Map". Globefeed.com (GFC). Retrieved 27 July 2015.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. GFC, . (27 July 2015). "Map Showing Mpigi And Sembabule With Route Marker". Globefeed.com (GFC). Retrieved 27 July 2015.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. Google (27 July 2015). "Location of Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road At Google Maps" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  6. Nsubuga, Henry (1 October 2010). "1,000 Kilometers of Roads To Be Constructed". New Vision. Kampala. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  7. Chistopher Kisekka, and Malik Fahad Jjingo (28 October 2017). "Armed robbers steal Shs140 million from Chinese road contractors". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  8. EAAB (12 July 2015). "Implementation of the NRM Manifesto 2011-2016: Mpigi–Kabulasoke–Maddu–Sembabule Road And Sembale–Villa Maria Road". East Africa Agribusiness (EAAB). Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.

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