Khaberni - The Ministry of Public Works and Housing commenced on Saturday the implementation of maintenance work for the Muwaqqar–Azraq road, within a central tender which includes the maintenance of a group of main roads in the Central Region, a step that reflects the ministry's direction towards enhancing the efficiency of the vital road network and keeping pace with urban expansion and economic growth in the kingdom.
This project comes within the framework of the ministry's ongoing efforts to improve infrastructure, contributing to reducing traffic congestion and enhancing public safety levels, alongside facilitating the movement between various regions.
The duration of the tender execution 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 a number of vital roads in the Central Region which have deteriorated technically due to high traffic loads and rapid urban development in the areas they pass through. The work includes carrying out comprehensive maintenance using asphalt mixes, in addition to milling damaged layers and rehabilitating them, performing patching and treatment works, as well as painting roads and installing reflectors and barriers, maintaining concrete bridges and the Hashemite culvert, and addressing sites of collapses and erosions, especially on the Dead Sea road in the vicinity of the hotel area, as well as maintaining pedestrian bridges.
The project includes eleven roads in addition to the Muwaqqar–Azraq road: the Airport Road, Amman Development Corridor, Salt Ring Road, Naour–Um Al-Basateen, Wadi Shueib–King Hussein Bridge, Amman–Salt, West Madaba, Royal Madaba–Dhiban–Mujib, Salam–Dead Sea, and Madaba–Um Al-Amad Road.
It is scheduled for the actual works to commence on the Muwaqqar–Azraq road, specifically in the section extending past the Faisal traffic light 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 would carry out the project without closing the road to traffic, by adopting a partial traffic diversion system, by diverting traffic to one of the lanes while working on the other lane, then reversing the diversion after completion, ensuring the continuity of traffic and minimizing impact on road users.
It also indicated that it would prepare these diversions with all elements of traffic safety according to the highest standards, confirming 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 personnel or the contractor, and in coordination with the Public Security Directorate.
