Increase of traffic along causeway

Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning’s Roads Planning and Design Director, Engineer Kadhim Abdul Latif said that a 15 per cent increase of traffic had followed along Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Causeway as a result of Mina Salman Interchange Revamp’s completion in 2014.

In comparison to 2013, traffic amounted to 83,000 vehicles travelling along the causeway in both directions. Now the capacity of Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Causeway is 195 vehicles a day.

The increase in traffic indicates a growth in goods transport between Sheikh Khalifa Port and King Fahd Causeway.

The revamp of Mina Salman Interchange after revamping Umm Al Hassam Interchange and Bahrain Map Interchange has facilitated travel between Manama and Hidd, in which moving between King Fahd Causeway and Sheikh Khalifa Port would take 21 minutes, when in the past it took 62 minutes.

Traffic is expected to increase along Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman Causeway due to the thriving industrial urbanization in Hidd Industrial Area and also due to the implementation of Hidd Housing Project.

Abdul Latif also added that the Ministry continued to prepare traffic studies and detailed designs targeting the remainder of intersections along main highways in the Kingdom to ease traffic.