The road starts at Nyendo, a neighborhood in the city of Masaka and ends in the town of Sembabule, a total distance of about 48 kilometres (30 mi).
[1] This road is the principal transport corridor between the districts of Masaka, Kalungu, Bukomansimbi and Sembabule.
[3] After many years of being included in the annual budget speeches without action, work to upgrade the gravel road to class 2 bitumen finally began in February 2015.
Construction work was contracted to the China Railway Number 3 Engineering Group Company Limited at a cost of UGX:239 billion.
[6] The 11 kilometres (7 mi) Masaka–Villa Maria section[7] remains gravel surfaced.