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- Fes News Media
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Between the inauguration celebration and the images of the new modern station opened today in the city of Taza, with an investment nearing 50 million dirhams, and the whistle of the old trains still running on the rusty railway tracks in the east of the kingdom, lies a stark paradox that sums up the story of an entire city. The station, with its elegant design and modern services, appears as a shining symbol of a developmental project whose core still suffers from the weakness of the past.
No one can deny that the new station, as infrastructure, is a much-needed qualitative addition. It is an urban landmark that will undoubtedly change the city’s face and provide a decent reception space for travelers. But the question Taza’s citizens ask simply and bitterly is: “What use are comfortable seats in the waiting hall if the wait itself is long and the journey aboard dilapidated trains feels like an adventure?”
The announcement of adding two train trips between Taza and Fez, along with providing “Supratour” buses to Al Hoceima, is a positive step responding to an urgent demand, yet it remains a patchy solution to a deeper problem. The real isolation suffered by Taza and the eastern regions cannot be resolved by beautiful stations alone but requires freeing the railway itself from neglect. The single-track railway that has not changed since the protectorate era and the diesel trains outdated by time are the root cause of lengthy and arduous journeys to and from Taza, leaving the city almost completely isolated from the dynamic Tangier-Casablanca axis.
The people of Taza, who greeted this “glimmer of hope” with optimism, are now waiting for the project to be completed with bolder steps: doubling the railway track between Fez and Oujda, electrifying it, and providing modern trains worthy of their dignity and the ambitions of their region. Without a genuine and effective connection to the national high-speed network, the new station will remain just an island of modernity in a sea of marginalization, and the dream of breaking isolation will be postponed indefinitely.
The new station is a good start, but the road ahead remains long. Hope lies in this infrastructure being only the beginning of a real revolution in rail transport in the east of the kingdom, not just a beautiful facade hiding behind it trains barely capable of moving.
God, Homeland, King 🇲🇦
From the website: Fes News
