Lebanon Road Assessment Additional Information
Road Contacts
Directorate General of Land and Maritime Transport
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Preparing plans and studies for implementing the policy, including developing and upgrading the
various activities of the Land Transport sector;
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Proposing improvements to the standards of public transport vehicles;
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Encouraging private sector participation and investment in the sector;
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Licensing of operators & companies involved in Land transport;
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Ensuring the conformity of land transport vehicles with the Safety measures;
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Improving land logistic services;
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Supervising & following up the Land Transport activities performed by the private sector; and
Making bilateral and multilateral agreements that can facilitate land transport.
Directorate General of Roads & Buildings
Responsible for the construction, rehabilitation & maintenance of public roads and government
buildings.
Road Construction and Maintenance
Lebanese Roads Condition After 2006 War:
According to the Council of Development and Reconstruction (CDR), the Israeli aggression has
partially or totally destroyed 97 bridges located on main and secondary roads. 60 of those bridges
have been adopted for reconstruction, and so far, reconstruction work has been completed some of
them. As for the number of destroyed roads, it reached 151 roads in all the regions in
Lebanon. According to the first phase of the Ministry of Public Works’ Rehabilitation and
Reconstruction Plan which concentrates on rapidly reconnecting regions to each other, the HRC has
contracted 291 projects amounting to LBP 10.5 billion, for rehabilitation and building road diversions
on all the Lebanese territory; some of these contracts include more than one road or diversion. In the
meantime, French, Russian, and British technical teams are installing 14 temporary metal bridges as
per the technical specifications of the HRC technical consultant. In the second phase of its plan, the
Ministry will permanently reconstruct bridges and rehabilitate roads. This phase will include studies,
implementation and control of the reconstructed sites, and will last between 6 months and 2 years in
order to totally eliminate the traces left by the war on roads and bridges. The overall estimated
famount for reconstruction of bridges and roads alone, according to Lebanese officials, will cost USD
3 billions!
Road Classification
From
To
International Distance Code
Road No.
in km
Techincal Design
Road condition &
environment
Number Platform
Age/ Enviroment
of
Lanes
availabilty year
(y/n)
Dabousseyah
cross border
(SyriaLebanon)
Aboudeyah M51
cross
border
(LebanonSyria)
18
1H
2
N
>20
Coastal
Aboudeyah
Tripoli
M51
5
1H
2
N
>25
Coastal
Tripoli
Beirut
M51
83
1H
4
Y
>20
Coastal
Beirut
AlNaqoora
M51
104
1H
4
Y
>20
Coastal
Jedeidah
Al-
M30
6
1H
4
Y
>20
Mountainous
cross border
(SyriaLebanon
Massnaá
cross
border
(LebanonSyria)
Al-Massnaá
cross border
(LebanonSyria)
Beirut
M30
53
1H
4
N
>25
Mountainous
269
1H
cross border
(LebanonSyria)
Total Lebanon International Road
Distance
Road Inventory
Classification
International Roads
Width/meter
10-14
Length/ km
269
Primary Roads (highways)
10-14
261
Primary Roads
8-10
1650
Secondary Roads
5-8
1340
Local Roads
4-6
2810
Total
6330
Bridges
Lebanon has a considerable number of bridge networks all over the country. In 2006 war with Israel,
the number of 91 bridges has been destroyed.
According to final information from the Council of Development and Reconstruction (CDR) and the
Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, the number of partially or totally destroyed bridges
located on main and secondary roads reached 91 bridges, out of which 73 have been adopted for
reconstruction with the rest being financed by HRC.
CDR is currently handling the reconstruction of 49 bridges, 17 of which are in the South, 2 in
Nabatieh, 24 in Mount Lebanon, 3 in Bekaa and 3 in the North. The Ministry is handling 42 bridges,
12 out of which are in the South, 13 in Nabatieh, 2 in Mount Lebanon, 9 in Bekaa and 6 in the North.
Reconstruction activities on those bridges have gone a long way as 43 have been completed while
work is expected to be finalized in the rest of the bridges by July 2007, except for Mudairej and
Damour Archeological bridge on which works need a longer period of time.
In this concern, the HRC has assigned, through the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, the
rehabilitation of 219 roads and the building of 44 road diversions and 21 passage ways to ensure
traffic flow on all the Lebanese territory. Accomplished works totaled around LBP 5 billion, while total
contracted works will exceed the amount of LBP 16 billion.
Transport Corridors
Lebanon has three operating corridors with Syria. These corridors are:
1- Al Masnaa- Al-Jeidah border entry point (at the eastern part of Lebanon) 60 km from Damascus
and 110km from Beirut. This is the main corridor that connects the Lebanese and Syrian capitals.
2- Al-Areedha-Tartous border entry point (at the northern part of Lebanon). This corridor is located
at the coastal area and widely used for cargo transportation between Syria and Lebanon. It is 45km
far from Tartous at the Syrian side and 170km far from Beirut at the Lebanese side.
3Al-Abodeyah - Al-Dabouseyah border entry point (at the northern part of Lebanon). This
corridor is connecting Homs governorate (from the Syrian side) with Tripoli Governorate (from the
Lebanese side). It is widely used for cargo transportation (especailly in the in-transit cargo to Iraq and
has the same distance of the second one.