Bahrain to study extending metro corridor to Sports City

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Plans are on the anvil to extent Bahrain’s metro corridor to Bahrain sports city, for which the Kingdom is to start a feasibility study. The plan is to extend the Bahrain metro corridor from King Hamad Railway Station at Alramli area to the new sports City and the International Exhibition Centre at Sakhir area.

The Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications said they are looking forward to appointing a technical consultant to study the feasibility of the route for completion in the first phase. The study will evaluate the possibilities of a different alternative corridor, the project’s economic benefit, station allocation, concept and preliminary design of the corridor and cost estimate of the project.

The ministry had also launched a tender for the project in March, which attracted huge interests. Eleven companies had expressed their willingness in the project.

The bid values are undisclosed. Egis, Gulf Markets International, Mohamed Salahuddin Consulting, AECOM Middle East Limited, SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas and Intecsainarsa are among the bidders.

These details came as the tender and auction board, the independent regulatory body tasked with overseeing government bidding and bidding practices, opened 57 bids received for eight tenders by five government agencies and ministries.

The ministry had said that it envisages completing an approximate length of 28.6km with 20 stations with two lines in the first phase. The first line will connect Airport to Seef District through Airport Avenue and King Faisal Highway.

The second line will connect Juffair to the Educational area in Isa Town through King Faisal Highway, passing by the Diplomatic sector and Bab Al Bahrain.