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=====Infrastructure===== [[File:خريطة الطرق في المغرب 1919.jpg|thumb|Roadmap of Morocco in 1919]] The Compagnie franco-espagnole du chemin de fer de Tanger à Fez built a standard gauge railroad connecting Fes and Tangier,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6531943d|title=Compagnie franco-espagnole du chemin de fer de Tanger à Fez|date=1914|language=EN}}</ref> while Compagnie des chemins de fer du Maroc (CFM) built [[Standard-gauge railway|standard gauge]] railways connecting Casablanca, Kenitra, and Sidi Kacem, and Casablanca and Marrakech, completed in 1928.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6207539f|title=La Terre marocaine: revue illustrée...|date=1 December 1928|website=Gallica|language=EN|access-date=23 March 2020}}</ref> Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Maroc Oriental created [[2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways|narrow-gauge]] railroads east of Fes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Allain|first=J.-C.|date=1987|title=Les chemins de fer marocains du protectorat français pendant l'entre-deux-guerres|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rhmc_0048-8003_1987_num_34_3_1417|journal=Revue d'Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine|volume=34|issue=3|pages=427–452|doi=10.3406/rhmc.1987.1417}}</ref> ''[[Compagnie de Transports au Maroc|La Compagnie de Transports au Maroc]]'' ([[Compagnie de Transports au Maroc|CTM]]) was founded in 30 November 1919 with the goal of accessing "all of Morocco." Its services ran along a new colonial road system planned with the aim of linking all major towns and cities.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=Susan Gilson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vochAwAAQBAJ&q=offend+no+tradition,+change+no+custom,+and+remind+ourselves+that+in+all+human+society+there+is+a+ruling+class,+born+to+rule,+without+which+nothing+can+be+done...%5Bwe%5D+enlist+the+ruling+class+in+our+service...and+the+country+will+be+pacified,+and+at+far+less+cost+and+with+greater+certainty+than+by+all+the+military+expeditions+we+could+send+there&pg=PA90|title=A History of Modern Morocco|date=8 April 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139619110|pages=112|language=en}}</ref> It continues to offer intercity bus services nationwide.
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