Study on new causeway to be completed in early 2015

A feasibility study on the proposed King Hamad Causeway would be completed in early 2015, which would include projections for the cost and date of completion.
Director General of the causeway project, Badr Al-Otaishan, said here recently that there are no estimations currently on cost or the construction time frame. This information would be available once the feasibility study is complete, he said.
President of the Saudi Railways Organization Muhammad Al-Suwaiket said recently that the bridge would provide for trains and vehicles. He said the final design for the causeway and the railway lines have not been completed.
The plan to build the bridge was announced in Jeddah in September this year during a meeting between King Hamad bin Eisa Al-Khalifa and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
The separate train line is expected to be part of the wider Gulf Cooperation Council 170-km railway network, according to reports.
The new causeway, expected to be 25-km long, will run parallel to the existing King Fahd Causeway, the only link on land between the two kingdoms, which opened in November 1986.