On Monday, December 07, 2020, Mansour Faye, Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Disengagement, was in the National Assembly to defend his budget. He announced a new date for the start of the Regional Express Train.
During his visit to the Committee of the National Assembly, the Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Disengagement, Mansour Faye, informed that the start of the TER is expected in 2021. The work of the TER started in 2017 and in the second half of 2021 the TER will be put into commercial operation,’ he informed. According to the commission’s report, the first phase of the Dakar-Diamniadio project is very advanced and the start of the pre-exploitation phase is coming soon. Commercial operations are expected to begin in 2021.
In anticipation, the State planned the completion of the second phase of the Diamniadio-AIBD project. According to the commission’s report, the conditions for strengthening this conditional part of the project have been met. And currently, the State has taken steps to close the financing of the project, the architectural validation of the infrastructure and the procurement scheme.
The Regional Express Train (TER) is a work that requires, before its operation, a securing of the tracks and a serious technical work since it will join the station of Dakar to the AIBD. The train will run at 160 km/hour and the power line has a capacity of 25,000 volts.
Lane security currently concerns the Keur Mbaye Fall and Thiaroye walkways and if these two lanes are secured dynamic testing will start.
