Editing Transport in Haiti (section)

== Roads ==
[[Image:Tap tap public transportation Haiti.jpg|thumb|A "[[tap tap]]" bus, used for public transportation in Haiti]]
Haiti's network of roads consists of National Roads, Department Roads, and county roads.  The hub of the road network is located at the old airport (at the intersection of Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Autoroute de Delmas). From this intersection, Route Nationale #1 and Route Nationale #2 commence.

* '''Route Nationale #1''' (RN1) heads north, passing through [[Saint-Marc]] and [[Gonaïves]] to its terminus at Rue 22 in [[Cap-Haïtien]].
* '''Route Nationale #2''' (RN2) is commonly known as “Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines”  within Port-au-Prince and as “Route du Sud” outside the capital region.  After heading south through downtown Port-au-Prince, it travels west through the capital's western boroughs and then through [[Petit-Goâve]] and [[Aquin]] to its terminus at Avenue des Quatre Chemins in [[Les Cayes]]. (However, its “extension” continues southwest almost to the sea south of [[Port-Salut|Port Salut]].)
* '''Route Nationale #3''' (RN3) begins where RN1 heads northwest from [[Bon Repos]], not far north of the road network's hub.  RN3 travels northeast, traversing the Plateau Centrale via [[Mirebalais]] and [[Hinche]] before finally re-joining RN1 in Cap-Haïtien.
* '''Route Nationale #4''' (RN4) branches off from RN2 at Carrefour du Fort Léogâne, not far south of [[Léogâne]].  Commonly known as “Route de l’Amitié”, RN4 climbs and descends the [[Chaîne de la Selle]] mountain range on its meandering southward course to its terminus in the centre of [[Jacmel]].
* '''Route Nationale #5''' (RN5) breaks off from RN1 on the northeast edge of Gonaïves, heading north and then northwest through [[Gros-Morne, Haiti|Gros Morne]] before terminating near the airport outside [[Port-de-Paix]].
* '''Route Nationale #6''' (RN6) branches off from RN3 just as it is about to enter Cap-Haïtien from the south. RN6 heads southeast toward the [[Dominican Republic|Dominican]] border through [[Terrier Rouge]] en route to [[Ouanaminthe]].  Its terminus is the bridge over the [[Massacre River (Dominican Republic)|Massacre River]].
* '''Route Nationale #7''' (RN7) commences from the aforementioned Avenue des Quatre Chemins in Les Cayes, going northwest across Haiti's southern arm to the outskirts of [[Jérémie]].
* '''Route Nationale #8''' (RN8) is by far the shortest of the National Roads.  It breaks off RN1 at Carrefour Shada in [[Croix-des-Missions]].  Heading east, it passes through [[Croix-des-Bouquets]], skirts the southern shore of [[Étang Saumâtre]], and terminates at the [[Malpasse]] border crossing with the Dominican Republic.

Maintenance for RN1 and RN2 lapsed after the 1991 coup, prompting the World Bank to loan US$50 million that was designated for road repairs. The project was cancelled in January 1999. The World Bank, who reasoned that the cancellation of those projects would ruin Haiti's road infrastructure progress created the FER (Fond d’Entretien Routier) in 2003. This was a way to cut down corruption, get local companies involved, and in restraining any stopping of these projects because of political instability or protests. President Rene Preval, on his campaign for his second term, vowed on his Maillages Routiers to rebuild the majority of these roads that had disintegrated rapidly and build new ones that would enable the country to move forward. When he wasn't able to get the funds from the World Bank, he pleaded to the international donors for assistance, which was heavily criticized by many politicians in the media, but was greatly embraced by a population desperate to see road infrastructure development come to their towns. Therefore, the European Union pledged to help build RN6, then RN3. In the meantime, the World Bank loaned Haiti US$200 Million to rebuild RN2, from River Froide, which is the starting point of RN2, all the way to Aquin and repair RN1 from Titanyen to Cap-Haïtien. The hurricane season of 2008 was a major setback in development, since many bridges in multiple areas had either collapse or suffered extensive damage and was in immediate need of repair. Most of those work on RN1 and RN2, that were already halted, suffered a major setback during the earthquake of January 12, 2010. For the construction of RN7, Canada pledged US$75 million and the IDB US$31 million for the construction of RN7, which started in 2009. It, too, suffered major setbacks because of the January 12 earthquake.

===Statistics===
* Total highways: 6,045&nbsp;km
* Paved highways: 2,971&nbsp;km
* Unpaved highways: 3,071&nbsp;km (2011 est

===Public transportation===
The public transportation is mostly privately owned in Haiti, previously it was an individual business, with the new generation of entrepreneurs, it is mainly association. The most common form of public transportation in Haiti is the use of brightly painted pickup trucks as taxis called [[Tap tap|"tap-taps"]]. They are named this because when a passenger needs to be let off they use their coin money to tap the side of the vehicle and the driver usually stops. Most tap-taps are fairly priced at around 10-15 gourdes per ride within a city. The catch to the price is that the driver will often fill a truck to maximum capacity, which is nearly 20-30 people. The Government in an effort to structure the public transportation has attempted several time to bring BUS, in around 1979, It was the BUS called CONATRA a contract between the government and association of driver which quickly failed because of sabotage from different factor and poor maintenance. In 1998, another attempt was made with the Service Plus and Dignite for student and teacher. Sabotage, poor maintenance and the overthrow of Aristide in 2004 had severely undermined the effort, in 2006 at the return of Preval in power another effort was made to recover the majority of the bus left, and a Gift of 300 new bus from Taiwan an effort to bring back Service Plus in association of the drivers. Mini-vans are frequently used to cover towns close to Port-au-Prince, such as Pétion-Ville, Jacmel, Leogane and others. Today throughout the island, motorcycles are widely used as a form of taxi. also from planes.