At a time when the Kuwait Municipality approved the request of the Public Authority for Roads and Land Transport develop the Fahaheel Expressway, and referred the project to the Municipal Council, informed sources say Authority’s board of directors has objected to the project in its current form.
The sources said that the project is one of the largest projects expected to be implemented by the authority in the coming years, but it is currently facing many obstacles that threaten to delay its implementation for several years, reports Al-Qabas daily.
The sources indicated that the current board of directors of the authority requested a reconsideration of the project, due to its high cost, which is 1.35 billion dinars, and did not respond to several inquiries raised by the executive management regarding moving forward with the change order in the design agreement in order to complete the final design.
The sources stated that the study for the project, which was completed before the appointment of the current board, includes the implementation of a 36-kilometer-long bridge, extending from Kuwait City to South Sabahiya, at an estimated cost of 1.35 billion dinars to be completed in 14 years.
The Board President Dr. Hussein Al-Khayyat, who was recently asked to continue in his job until the end of this month, after announcing his earlier acceptance of his resignation, had requested a review of the components of the project and the method of its implementation.
