The major objectives of the road sector development plan will be expansions of road infrastructures, upgrading and improving the standards of the existing roads, reducing transportation cost and thereby support acceleration of economic growth and development. In GTP II, the total road length is planned to increase from 110,414 km in 2014/15 to 220,000 km by 2019/20. It is planned to upgrade 560 km trunk roads, 3,765km of link roads and 15,000km of rural roads. As a result, the average time that takes to reach the nearest all-weather road is planned to decline from 1.5 hour in 2014/15 to 0.8 hour by 2019/20, reduce the proportion of areas further than 5km from all-weather roads from 36.6% to 13.5%, increase road density from 100.4km/1000km to 200km/1000km, increase roads in acceptable conditions (fair to good) from 70% in 2014/15 to 80% by 2019/20. Besides, it is planned to increase the ratio of asphalt (paved road) roads from 13% in 2014/2015 to 16% by 2019/20. The Plan focuses on upgrading and construction of new roads by strengthening the capacity of the Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA). Capacity of Woreda road desks will be strengthened in road administration, maintenance works and ensuring the participation of the communities. Road construction work will continue so as to open the country's low land areas for development. The other focus area in the implementation of road sector development plan is to explore alternatives and implement them to construct roads at reasonable cost at the required standard and in a reasonably short time. Similarly, major focus will be given to maintain the roads so far built with billions of Birr to enable them provide the required services. Road maintenance system will be strengthened considering problems and experiences in the area. In order to ensure road traffic