King Fahad Causeway sinking into sea
May 04, 2009 at 06:01
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The King Fahad Causeway linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia is sinking into the sea due to the heavy weight of traffic using the bridge, a senior official warned in comments published on Monday.
Abdulhakim Shammary, head of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) Customs and Port Committee, said the 28 km causeway had already sunk a "few centimetres" in the last couple of years and urgent repairs were needed, Bahrain’s Gulf Daily News reported.
Shammary said there were sections of the bridge that looked like they were "caving in".
The causeway is only road-link between the two countries is used by hundreds of thousands of trucks every year. The causeway is notorious for its traffic jams.
"The causeway, built at a cost of $1.2 billion and commissioned for use in 1982, was never meant to have such a large number of heavy trucks standing on it all the time," he was quoted as saying.
"We have a situation every day where thousands of tonnes of goods carried by trucks are waiting for hours on the bridge and that put pressure on the structure."
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