Government and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), are studying ways to reduce blood on the roads in the capital of the country, especially on the roads in the Metropolitan Area of Maputo, which includes the municipalities of Maputo, Matola, Boane and Marracuene.

To this end, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), with support from KOICA, plans to implement, over the next four years, a pilot project called "Road Safety Improvement and Institutional Capacity Building Project of Mozambique", with national public institutions that aims to provide technical support to the National Institute of Road Transport (INATRO), in the implementation of infrastructure policies and application of traffic monitoring systems.

According to Fernando Ouana, from the Directorate of Transport and Road Safety at the MTC, who was speaking this Tuesday at a sounding board meeting, the focus is on producing statistics and information on road accidents with the necessary detail that will help in making policy decisions to reduce fatalities and accidents on the roads.

"On the roads we are going to create safety spaces, with speed reduction, near schools to protect children, and install monitoring systems with cameras to register violations of the Highway Code," said Fernando Ouana.

Budgeted at seven million dollars, a fund that will be provided by KOICA, the pilot project will be focused on a few locations, the so-called black spots, where more accidents occur, which will be intervened to facilitate pedestrian circulation, because most accidents are caused by pedestrians being run over.

For his part, the director of KOICA, Young Sun Jung, stressed that the project also includes the training of managers and technicians from public institutions that deal with the issue.