The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is currently conducting a feasibility study to construct a parallel toll road project that will stretch from Mojo to Hawassa (Awassa). The study will help to undertake detailed design work of the new expressway. It is being undertaken by ERA’s own staff. The Southern Nation, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State capital, Hawassa, is 200Km from Mojo Town. Mojo is 73Km east of Addis Ababa. The Addis-Adama toll road, which is Ethiopia’s first expressway, is currently under construction by China Communications Construction Co (CCCC) at a cost of USD 612 million. ERA had also plans to continue the Addis-Adama expressway further east to Awash; however it is not expected to be implemented within the next few years as the cost to construct this type of project is huge. “The traffic flow on the route from Mojo to Hawassa is increasing. This is the reason to start the feasibility study for the new expressway,” officials at the authority said. Even tho