Whether this will be achieved or not is the interest of this discussion. Let me hasten to point out that I have no statistics to back up my position. My position is informed by observation, past experiences and also experiments with similar scenarios while a student at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies in Sydney. The reader has to understand that one of the objectives of building a new road is to attend to issues that the existing cannot handle currently and even in the future especially congestion which can be a nuisance to people's lives. My opinion especially in regards to the reduction of congestion in this corridor is that it will not be achieved!
Having observed the road design, I would like to conclude that significant milestones will be achieved in the reduction of the accidents especially that lead to fatalities. The road has been designed in such a way that opposite movements have little chance of interfering with each other by building a media (barrier built to separate opposite movements) in the middle of the road. This however presents another challenge. The road becomes rigid losing out on traffic management techniques like regulating lanes according to the flow of traffic (three lanes in the morning coming to Gaborone and vice-versa in the afternoon) increasing the road capacity by capturing excess capacity in the opposite direction.
