The government will be spending an average of 6 billion Birr per year for construction of the railway. According to the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC), the construction would generate employment opportunity for over 300 thousand citizens.
Of course, Ethiopia is not new to train transport; nor is train transport foreign to Ethiopia. The two have had a century-old relations. Despite such a long tie, the poor train transport service in the country had, once, disrupted completely. At present, however, the service appears to have revived with modern technology by far better than the former.
Constructed in two phases, the new railway would link people in all corners of the country. According to Dr. Getachew Betru, Director General of ERC, the railway would stretch out in eight different directions across the country. Five railway tracks will be constructed in the first phase of the project.
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