Kwekwe–Gokwe Highway
road in Zimbabwe
The Kwekwe-Gokwe Highway or the R84-7 Highway is an all-weather bitumen macadam highway in Zimbabwe running from Kwekwe to Gokwe passing through Zhombe. As a trunk road it is officially designated as the P11 Highway.
It is 141 kilometres (88 mi) from Kwekwe to Gokwe but the highway which branches off from the A5 (Harare-Bulawayo Highway) is 137 kilometres (85 mi), a 1-hour-50-minute drive on average.
Management
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA), a government department under the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development, oversees the highway.
Background
In the 1973 Automobile Association national roadmap, the Kwekwe–Gokwe road (then Que Que–Gokwe road) was a gravel one for about 99% of its present length. Only 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) of the old Gokwe road was asphalt surface from Kwekwe.
Reconstruction
The former gravel road was expanded in width and tarred from 31 January 1986 to 31 March 1991.
Operations
The original plan was to construct a 7-metre-wide (23 ft) carriageway with two 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) shoulders. The road is however 6 metres (20 ft) with 2 0.5-metre (1.6 ft) shoulders constructed according to the revised plan of 1986.
Bridges
From Kwekwe to Gokwe the road passes over various rivers with standard bridges.
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