Today, Monday, the King Fahd Causeway witnessed a huge congestion in the number of vehicles in the direction leading to Bahrain, hours after the bridge recorded a record number of passengers, which reached 136,498 yesterday.
The transit time to Bahrain was one hour and 8 minutes, while the time taken to reach the Kingdom via the bridge was 12 minutes.
The General Corporation for King Fahd Causeway had begun expansion and maintenance works for the procedures areas, with the aim of increasing capacity and improving the experience of bridge users.
The Corporation had started expansion and maintenance works for the procedures areas, with the aim of increasing the capacity and improving the experience of its transit customers in several stages, noting that the first stage will be completed within 3 months, provided that the rest of the stages are completed successively until the completion of all work within a year.