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Transport in East Timor

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In East Timor, transportation is reduced due to the nation's poverty, poor transportation infrastructure, and sparse communications networks. There are no railways in the country. The general condition of the roads is inadequate, and telephone and Internet capabilities are limited outside the cities. The country has six airports, one of which has commercial and international flights. East Timor has no railways. However, a master plan for a long electrified double-track railway was proposed in 2012, with a central line from Bobonaro to Lospalos, a western corridor from Dili to Betano and an eastern corridor from Baucau to Uatolari. East Timor has a road network of , of which about of roads are paved, and about are unpaved. The road network is made up of national roads linking municipal capitals (~), municipal roads linking municipal capitals to towns and villages (~), urban roads within urban areas (~) and rural roads within rural areas (~). In a 2015 survey reported by the World Bank, 57% of the rural roads were rated either bad or poor. East Timor has 20 arterial roads, designated as A-class roads (national roads), as follows: In October 2016, the East Timorese government symbolically launched a rehabilitation project for the Dili–Manatuto–Baucau national road. Construction was to be undertaken in two sections, Dili–Manatuto, and Manatuto–Baucau, in each case by a Chinese construction company. The project was financed by the General State Budget, and also from a loan fund from the Japanese government, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). It was due to be completed in mid-2019, and the completed road was officially inaugurated on 26 August 2022. According to a road network connectivity quality assessment published in September 2019, the national road network already satisfactorily connected all national activity centres for all types of vehicles in circulation. However, some of the road segments needed to be improved, in terms of road width, drainage, geometric design and traffic facilities.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_East_Timor

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