JEDDAH: The Jeddah municipality is currently studying offers of 15 local and international companies to construct an underpass at the busy intersection of Al-Andalus Road and Al-Amana Street.
The tenders will be opened next month to choose the company that will handle the project, according to Ahmad Banafa, general supervisor for municipality projects.
He said that the new project would be linked to the currently constructed underpass in the intersection between Al-Andalus Road and King Abdullah Street.
The winning company would be obliged to present a detailed presentation of the detour plans for diverting traffic during all phases of the proposed project.
He noted that the city of Jeddah suffers more traffic congestions than other areas around the Kingdom due to faster demographic growth, saying the city is now inhabited by more than three million residents who are driving more than a million vehicles in six million trips a day.
The municipality’s total road projects are worth more than SR5 billion, with one billion riyals going to 18 ongoing road projects.
“Projects that are currently under bidding are estimated at SR1.1 billion while 35 projects worth SR3 billion are still in the designing phase,” Banafa said.
