The Ministry of Transport has announced the opening of the first phase of Asfan Road in Jeddah to traffic traffic after rehabilitation, to serve the residents of Jeddah and its visitors
The Asfan road is one of the vital roads in the governorate and a vital artery connecting the city of Jeddah with the northern industrial city
And the University of Jeddah, in addition to many neighborhoods and residential plots on both sides of the road (the neighborhood of Taiba, outline of the outskirts)
While the road was expanded to become a width of 3 lanes with internal and external shoulder for each direction
With the implementation of an intermediate island with a width of 5 meters separated by concrete barriers on both sides
A 600-meter service road was also implemented along with the rest of the road
To be implemented successively that the Jeddah Municipality to complete the implementation of service routes right and left way.
The branch of the Ministry of Transport in Makkah Region and with the support of the Emirate of Makkah Region has been rehabilitating and expanding the road. This will be done in stages following the first phase, which includes upgrading and upgrading the 4 km road of Asfan, which was implemented through the work of the Group VII project Real.
The number of employees in the implementation of the Group VII project in the Makkah area, which includes the rehabilitation of the first phase of the road to Asfan, 250 engineers, technicians, equipment operators, drivers and ordinary workers, was also provided as a crusher and asphalt mixing and concrete mixing unit of the project where the total engineering equipment and trucks The cars have about 170 equipment.