Khaberni - The Ministry of Public Works and Housing starts on the following Saturday the maintenance works for the Muwaqqar–Azraq road, as part of the central tender for maintaining a group of main roads in the Middle Region, in a step that reflects the ministry's approach to enhancing the efficiency of the vital roads network and keeping up with the urban expansion and economic growth in the kingdom.
This project comes within the framework of the ministry's ongoing efforts to improve the road infrastructure, contributing to reducing traffic congestion and enhancing public safety levels, alongside facilitating the movement between different areas.
The duration of the tender implementation is 300 working days, with an estimated cost of about 5.9 million dinars, funded by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development.
The project covers several vital roads in the Middle Region that have experienced deterioration in their technical condition due to high traffic loads and rapid urban development in the areas they pass through. The works include comprehensive maintenance using asphalt mixtures, alongside scraping the damaged layers and rehabilitating them, performing patching and treatment works, painting roads, installing reflectors and barriers, maintaining concrete bridges and Al-Hashimiya culvert, and addressing landslide and erosion sites, especially on the Dead Sea road around the hotel area, as well as maintaining pedestrian bridges.
The project includes eleven roads in addition to the Muwaqqar–Azraq road: the Airport, Amman Developmental Corridor, Salt Ring Road, Naour–Um Al-Basateen, Wadi Shueib–King Hussein Bridge, Amman–Salt, Western Madaba, Royal Madaba–Dhiban–Mujib, Peace–Dead Sea, and Madaba–Um Al-Amad road.
It is planned that the works will actually start on the Muwaqqar–Azraq road, specifically in the section extending after Al-Faisaliyah signal up to King Abdullah II Training City, with the rest of the sites to be completed according to the approved timeline.
The ministry confirmed that it will implement the project without closing the road to traffic, as a system of partial traffic diversions will be adopted, by diverting traffic to one of the lanes during the work on the other lane, then reversing the diversion after completion, ensuring the continuity of traffic flow and minimizing the impact on road users.
It also indicated that it will prepare these diversions with all traffic safety elements according to the highest standards, stressing that achieving public safety also requires the cooperation of drivers and their compliance with the guidelines and instructions of the field teams, whether from the ministry's staff or the contractor, and in coordination with the Public Security Directorate.
