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increased funding for the project significantly in order to bring it toward completion, allocating 26% of the entire federal transportation budget to the highway. By 2002, the road became technically passable for the first time (with major difficulties, see next section), and 500-700 cars per day
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to be notoriously difficult to traverse. Traveling a distance of 300 m (980 ft) could take as long as three hours, and the route involved numerous serious river crossings.
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at the far eastern end of the highway, constructed in 1999.
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