New bus shelters aim better passenger experience, services for Bahrain

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

New bus shelters are to come up in Bahrain as part of a comprehensive strategy to enhance public transport infrastructure. Ministry of Transportation (MOT) has started preliminary works by launching a tender to design and produce the shelters.

The new shelters, MoT says in the tender, are for creating a better passenger experience and service. The tender is for prequalifying suppliers to design and produce bus shelters. The ministry says a successful contractor should create a concept, preliminary and detailed designs, and necessary documents.

Contractors will have to supply, manufacture and install the shelter. The tender also clarifies that the ministry will use these qualified manufacturers for any upcoming tenders for designing and producing bus shelters.

If interested, make bids before the 2nd of March 2022, with a BD50 tender fee.

New strategy

The move is part of a strategy by the ministry to upgrade and modernise the public transport system and enhance its service facilities and support infrastructures.

The ministry had earlier said that a major reconstruction project is underway for all bus shelters and bus stops across Bahrain and completed at 296 locations as of October 2021. Reports last year also said that Bahrain is building more than 500 modern bus shelters fitted with kiosks and vending machines within two years.

At that time, the ministry also said it is increasing the number of air-conditioned bus shelters and created 26 air-conditioned bus shelters. As for bus laybys, the ministry constructed 76 laybys from 2016 to 2021. The ministry has also completed setting up 59 on-street stops in cooperation with the General Directorate of Traffic and Ministry of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs.

The report also says the ministry had also introduced taxi pylons in 17 taxi stops in the Capital Governorate as a first step to develop the taxi stops in Bahrain.