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Causeway on target

01 April 2012

ONE of Bahrain’s biggest infrastructure projects is set to be completed ahead of schedule.

The BD98 million ($259 million) North Manama Causeway includes upgrading the junctions that connect the Al Fateh Highway to the King Faisal Highway and the Shaikh Hamad Causeway.

It also features the construction of an elevated 1.42-km-long segmental flyover with dual carriageway on both directions.
The project should be ready by the first half of next year before its July 2013 deadline, said Works Minister Essam Khalaf.

“All indications are that the project will be completed before deadline,” he said. “At the current rate, a part of it could be open for traffic in the next few months.”

Khalaf said the project has both short-term and long-term goals. “The short-term goal falls within the ministry’s strategic roads masterplan and aims to ease traffic movement along Al Fateh Highway and provide access to the Bahrain Bay and Bahrain Financial Harbour.

“The long-term goals fall within the Bahrain Vision 2030 where the new flyover and roads act as an integral part of the planned highway network connecting Al Fateh Highway with the fourth crossing between Manama and Busaiteen.”

The major feature includes the construction of 2.4 km of new roads along Al Fateh Highway and the eastern and northern sides of the Bahrain Bay. A new 51.4-m-long single-span bridge with a three-lane dual carriageway across an architectural canal along the northern side of the bay is also under way.

Belgium’s Six Construct and Bahrain’s Haji Hassan Group are involved in the construction of the project.