The road roughly follows the old RP1 past Tiflet and to Khémisset, before falling down into the valley of the Oued Sebou.

The road makes a bypass past Meknes, serving it with two exits, before reaching the target city of Fez.

The road will be extended eastward all the way to Oujda, creating the main East-West cross-country link.

[2] The toll income of this road was 146 million dirham (2006: 117 MDh), ranking 4th in toll-revenues in Morocco[3] The road was constructed during a total of four years, between 1995 and 1999, and opened in three phases: The extension of this road, the Fes-Oujda expressway completes the A2 linking of Rabat to Oujda.

It was the first road where the ticket system for payment was implemented along the full stretch of the motorway.