Saudi Gazette report

JEDDAH — The Jeddah Mayoralty is establishing as many as 20 water taxi stations which have the capability to accommodate 29,000 passengers per day. These sea taxi stations will join Obhur seafront with northern and central Jeddah.

That is a part of an enormous public transport community, which is being applied by the mayoralty to additional ease the visitors congestion brought on by the density of inhabitants and arrival of huge numbers of tourists and vacationers to Jeddah, the Bride of the Purple Sea. Implementation of the water taxi station tasks is going down in parallel with the work of implementing an built-in public transport community that features various mild and specific metro traces and a community of buses.

The mayoralty began implementing an enormous connectivity plan to coordinate the visitors circulate to and from the town of Jeddah in order to scale back visitors congestion. That is in accordance with a complete transportation plan to be applied past the 12 months 2030.

It has thus far applied 40 bridges and tunnels, probably the most distinguished of that are the Madinah Highway Intersection Challenge in northern Jeddah; intersections on the Jeddah-Jazan Highway and the Exhibition Roundabout intersection; and intersection of the town street north of Al-Rehaili and Al-Hima Safety Highway of King Abdullah College of Science and Know-how (KAUST) on the jap facet of Thuwal. The tasks additionally embrace linking Al-Khair Bridge to King Faisal Highway in Jeddah with an intersection, and changing the primary and second coastal components of the Jeddah-Jazan Highway right into a freeway with a size of 43.65 kilometers.

The tasks additionally included lighting the remaining a part of Madinah Highway as much as KAUST in Thuwal, with the street hyperlink resulting in the college from the Al-Qudaymah intersection and Osfan Highway with a size of 70 kilometers. The tasks similar to Madinah – Al-Rehaili Highway intersection in addition to the street that begins from Briman intersection of Makkah –Madinah Highway with a size of 13 km and a double street challenge inside King Abdulaziz Medical Metropolis with an intersection on the outdated Makkah-Jeddah Highway with a size of three km, had been additionally accomplished.

The street connectivity tasks additionally included the ring street in Jeddah metropolis that connects the primary arteries. The primary half is 9 km lengthy with the intersection, which begins from King Faisal Al-Khomrah Highway till the intersection of Jeddah-Jazan Highway. The mayoralty can be implementing 23 tasks within the Jeddah governorate mayoralty. These embrace finishing some roads within the Makkah area, such because the street challenge that begins from the Briman intersection on the East Airport Highway till the Makkah – Madinah double street, with an intersection on the Makkah – Madinah Expressway with a hyperlink to the street resulting in Hoda Al-Sham Highway, with a size of 13 km with the intersection, and the completion of the street that begins from the Briman intersection to Makkah – Madinah Highway.

The tasks additionally included the secondary roads within the Makkah area; completion of Briman intersection street; lighting and concrete obstacles with a size of 28 km; bettering intersections on East Airport Highway; establishing a street to attach King Abdullah Sports activities Metropolis to Jeddah metropolis; intersections with a size of 70 km; 4 intersections and modification of bridges on the intersections of the North Terminal and the Pilgrims’ Terminal of King Abdulaziz Worldwide Airport, and three intersections and the freeway linking Jeddah and Makkah.