[ANG] Angolan Roads-Estradas Angolanas

[DanielFigFoz]

Map:



Road Network
total: 52,429 km
paved: 5,349 km
unpaved: 46,080 km (2001)

What I find interesting about this country, is that some roads have South African signage and some have Portuguese signage

[DanielFigFoz]

From the Angolan Forum:

Originally Posted by muloji17

Caros amigos estou de volta, na passada semana fiz uma viagem de Luanda ao Huambo com a familia, aqui vao alguns retratos do estado desta via...simplesmente genial...

[DanielFigFoz]

From the Angolan Forum:

Originally Posted by muloji17

The new highway Camama/Viana/Catete etc, etc....Its under construction as you can see...











This Hotel its under construction a couple feet from the highway so that drivers can rest....nice, I loved it.




You can see some buildings under construction near the highway...

[DanielFigFoz]

I'm sure that you're getting the idea of from where these come from.

Originally Posted by thaichitsiga

Originally Posted by muloji17

Fotos tiradas a 29/09/2009

Yep, you got it

Originally Posted by muloji17

Estrada principal da Samba, no sentido Benfica-Samba...esta uma autentica pista...Tem 2-3 faixas de rodagem e toda ela iluminada, de noite é uma coisa linda de se ver

[DanielFigFoz]

--DP, and I can't put other quotes here

[DanielFigFoz]

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Originally Posted by muloji17

Rebuilding an old avenue that is located right across from the 4 de Fevereiro airport...

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Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

new road to Gabela

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

new road to Malanje (2009)

Originally Posted by muloji17

Fotos tiradas na minha viagem a Gabela no dia 02 de Novembro de 2009. Este é o aspecto da nova via Gabela/Quibala. Simplesmente espectacular. Ve-se o rio ao longo da estrada e depois num certo ponto do troço estao localizadas as Cachoeira do Pinda, uma coisa doutro mundo...

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A entrada a cidade da Gabela...Lindo...
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Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

new road: Huambo- Páscoa





Courtesy of Abreijos MM

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

new highways u/c



Courtesy of Pedro

Originally Posted by muloji17

Indeed Hammelkar, here is some new pictures of the same place...

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Originally Posted by Kizaca

Picture by Angop

Troço Kwanza Sul/Benguela na trajectória para o CAN2010



Vista pacial da Estrada do Sumbe em direcção a Benguela



Pormenor da Estrada da Catumbela, na Província de Benguela



Vista parcial a Ponte Catumbela, Província de Benguela




Estrada da Canjala pronta para transportar espectadores do Sumbe para Benguela




Pormenor da Estrada da Canjala, Província de Benguela

[DanielFigFoz]

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Originally Posted by muloji17

Novo tunel da estrada de quem vem da Samba em direccao a FAPA e ao Aeroporto...esta via de certo modo reduziu o engarrafamento do Rocha Pinto...boa medida governamental...

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Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

Part of New Marginal - Trajecto da Nova Marginal a Marginal




Delightful and clean

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

is that a toll gate



more new roads

Originally Posted by muloji17

Estrada que sai da Ponte do Benfica atravessa o Lar do Patriota e termina juntando-se a auto estrada de Camama. Como podem reparar ela ainda esta em processo de acabamentos por isso se ver algum areal ao longo dela
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Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

road between Lubango and Quilenge (?)





Courtesy of Luis Almeida

Originally Posted by evany

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

Requalificação Urbana na Cidade de Luanda Luanda u/c



u/c demolishing woefully rotten areas and making space for modern urban infrastructure...u/C







Source: Directorio architetura (Brazil)

[DanielFigFoz]

And finally:

Originally Posted by Matthias Offodile

nova ponte

Originally Posted by skytrax

[DanielFigFoz]

Angola is developing fast, and I think that we shall see more growth within the road network in the next few years.

[ea1969]

I am a bit confused about the colour of the directional road signs in Angola. Over the posts, I have seen them in white, green and blue backgrounds, for roads that seem to me to be of the same class. Is there any codification?

[DanielFigFoz]

Originally Posted by ea1969

I am a bit confused about the colour of the directional road signs in Angola. Over the posts, I have seen them in white, green and blue backgrounds, for roads that seem to me to be of the same class. Is there any codification?

As far as I can see, some roads are done to South African specifications and have green road directional signs in a SA style and some are done to Portuguese specifications (which uses white for N roads) and are in a Portuguese style.

[DanielFigFoz]

[beto_chaves]

I can't understand... is Angola changing its road directional signs to ZA's style or they want to have/to keep the Pt style. In Mozambique, ZA, Swaziland, Namibia, etc, it's all ZA style.

[beto_chaves]

I think that in Cape Verde they follow the Portuguese road signs' style.

[DanielFigFoz]

In Angola it seems to be a bit of a mix, perhaps depending on contractor but the new motorways seem to have Portuguese style singage.

The non-directional signage in towns 9maybe not outside towns if the builders use South African signage) such as stop signs are certainly the same or very similar to Portuguese ones

[DanielFigFoz]

Photo by Sérgio dos Santos

[Frank IBC]

Pleasantly surprised at the high level of the roads there. I was expecting it to be all laderite roads. This seems to be at the same level as much of South America.

[Norsko]

Agree! Wondering why they use both South African and Portuguese road signage though.

[ed110220]

Originally Posted by Norsko

Agree! Wondering why they use both South African and Portuguese road signage though.

In more recent years many (all?) SADC countries have switched over to using South African signage. They may even be made in the RSA. However, as is the case in many lower-income countries there isn't the money to follow the signage guidelines fully everywhere.

In Angola's case, they seem to be installing Portuguese-style signs too, so maybe they are using one type for one type of road and another for others.

[costa]

I can't see relationship between the use of ones and use of others by this photos. Seems to be random.