A Province-Wide Plan
The Latakia Governorate's Directorate of Technical Services has unveiled a rehabilitation plan for the province's deteriorating road network, with work scheduled to begin in June 2026. The plan was disclosed by the directorate's head, Muhammad Subhi al-Khaled, as residents continue to report widening potholes, broken asphalt, and rising vehicle repair bills.
3 Billion Pounds, Five Areas
The total cost of the plan is approximately 3 billion Syrian pounds (SYP). It covers 17 roads totalling 45 kilometers in Jabal al-Akrad, 9 roads spanning 29 kilometers in Jabal al-Turkman, 5 roads of 25 kilometers in the al-Haffeh area, 2 main roads of 7 kilometers inside the city of Latakia, and 5 roads of 19 kilometers across the Jableh and al-Qardahah districts.
The directorate said the package also includes 8 new rural roads to be built in the Jableh and al-Qardahah areas.
Cost on the Ground
The deterioration is producing measurable costs for residents. Wassam Zaydan, search and rescue officer at the Syrian Civil Defense in the governorate, said his teams recorded more than 3,000 traffic incidents across 2025, with many tied to road conditions.
A Jableh resident, Muhammad Mahalla, said he paid roughly 3 million SYP to repair his vehicle after damage caused by potholes, illustrating the recurring household cost of the maintenance backlog.
Race Against Winter
The directorate aims to complete works before the 2026 winter season, when heavy rains have repeatedly turned poorly maintained roads into flash-flood channels in recent years. Officials framed the schedule as a single window to prevent another cycle of weather-driven damage and to restore mobility for civil servants, students, and farmers who rely on the same arteries daily.
No phased delivery dates were announced for individual road segments under the plan, and the directorate has not published a separate breakdown of how the 3 billion SYP envelope is split across the five subregions.
The directorate positioned the package as a coordinated response to absent maintenance routines rather than a piecemeal patching round, with named targets per subregion and a single province-wide completion window.