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One of the bridges on King Fahad Road
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King Fahad Road is deemed as the axle for the road net at Riyadh
city which contains the ring road , Makkah Road , as well as King Fahad Road
which stretches from the northern side to the southern side of the Ring Road
which is deemed as the main road that links the north and south of the
city. The number of the cars
crossing this road daily exceeds 500,000 vehicles while the vehicles crossing
the road by using the junction and bridge from east to west exceed 700,000
daily. This road contributes to
far extent in facilitating the traffic between the north and south part of
the city as well as supporting the exerted efforts for flourishing the
city-center to rehabilitate the area in order to carry out its role as
political and commercial main center in the city.
In this connection , the commission
constructed the first phase of King fahad Road with 5.1km length and its was
estimated of SR 316,000,000. This phase was completed and opened
in 1411H.
The basic requirements were observed in
planning this road. The
penetration of city center required designing the road in a shape of an open tunnel which is lowered from
the ground surface to avoid dividing the city into parts east an west in
addition to protect the residential area in the vicinity from the noise and air pollution resulted from
the swift traffic. Moreover, the
balance of the traffics going towards the city-center and transit traffics
was put into account when designing this road. Accordingly, the road design consists of two different
levels, one for vast traffics and the other for service road with sufficient
exit-inlet along the road to facilitate movement in and out the road.
The containing capacity of King Fahad Road
has reached 160,000 cars ont the swift lane daily in addition to 60,000 cars
daily on the service road. The number of cars crossing this road
when it was opened reached 140,000 vehicles daily on the vast lane in
addition to 15,000 cars daily on the service road. The traffic continues to increase until it exceeded 220,000
cars per day on the vast lanes and 40,000 cars on the service road for the
time being.
The middle phase of King Fahad Road which
was executed by the higher commission for Riyadh development is deemed to be
great leap in the conception of road inside the city because it represents
with its different components a
complete civilized system seeking to realize environmental balance besides its traffic performance. The contains besides the construction
of the road the following main works:
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King Fahad Road
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Road Forestation
and Coordination of the Site
The Road has been planted with trees and
the site was coordinated at its length for decoration and protecting the
residential area in the vicinity from air pollution. The site coordination
works include tree-planting along the road. Pushes and trees were planted on the strip divide the road
inside the tunnel and along apart of the pavement extended at the ages of the
Road.
The prominent distinguished element of
site coordination on this road m the park planted on the covered tunnel at
the junction of Imam Turki bin Abdullah street and Imam Mohammed bin Saud
over an area covered 12000sq.m. In addition, ten small parks were spread at
both sides of the road as well as green area at some sites to form a
separated margins for the road as well as protection to parallel residential
from air pollution as a result of heavy traffic.
Groundwater Drainage System Construction
The digging works at the tunnel of King Fahad
Road has been exploited in constructing a system for decreasing groundwater
level in the middle of Riyadh-city. This system drains great quantities of
ground and surface water which has been discharged into the sewerage and torrent channels in order to
exploit this water in irrigation of the project plants as well as the near
project such as King Abdulaziz Historical Center. The rate of pumping the
groundwater reached 90,000 cubic meter per day. But this average is decreasing as a result of groundwater
level sinking.
Transfer and Reconstruction
of Public Facilities
The public facility lines that serve the
middle of Riyadh-city stretched along the way under King Fahad Road. These lines were transferred to other
intermediate locations during execution of the road until they were
reconstructed according to the new lanes that has been identified on the
road. But the lines that has
been passing across the road were fixed beneath the bridges until they were
re-installed at its new site.
Moreover additional passages were constructed for the potential public
facility lines.
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