Our roads are finally going to get fixed starting from today. The project of repairing all of Kuwait’s roads (including residential) is expected to take three years but, for the first phase they’re starting off with the main ones.
The first road that will be repaired is the 1st Ring Road, starting from the Gulf Road and extending all the way to the Jahra roundabout. The second to be fixed is Highway 40 starting from the 1st Ring Road down to the Bayan area. Third road to be fixed is the 4th Ring Road from Amman Street all the way to the UN roundabout, then they’re going to fix the 6th Ring Road from near 360 Mall (Zahra) towards the Subiya intersection, and finally the Doha Road starting from near the Entertainment City down to the 6th Ring Road.
Repairs will take place from 6pm to 6am on weekdays, and 12am to 12pm on weekends.
I’m surprised the 5th Ring Road isn’t part of the first phase and I’m disappointed the Gulf Road isn’t also part of the first phase since that’s the road I use 80% of the time. But, I’m just glad they’re finally starting!
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14 replies on “Road Repairs Start Today!”
THREE FUCKING YEARS!!!!!!!!!!
so by the time the three years are done, they will have to start work on the first road they started 3 years back and this continues for life so the contractor can keep getting richer and richer 😛
3 years seems decent, in Europe it took over 2 months to do a shitty job at a traffic intersection.
Hooray!! Although sadly (for me anyway) the season has mostly passed to drive my sporty motor and so will continue pretty much in the agricultural 4×4 until after the summer.
As a separate comment, I’m pretty sure that the current roads have taken a detrimental toll on many vehicles (suspension, tires, windscreen) and must surely be a contributory factor on road safety; shouldn’t heads roll for this current fiasco….?!
what car do you have?
BMW M6 convertible, the older (but tastier) V10 version
From 6 PM? Seriously? How fucked up traffic is going to be now? I mean the roads are fucked anyway, why the urgency and make our commutes even more miserable?
It’s only gonna take a few days I’d assume so just avoid those roads when they’re being repaired…
I’d take 10 days of repair over 5 days of traffic hell anyday.
Well, it is something!
How about Road 30 – Fahaheel express highway?
Oh yes! That ugly patch from Messila to Fintas 😡
You obviously haven’t ventured past Fintas…
There is an even worse patch on the 55 (Airport Road).. the stretch after the Lulu center just under the 4th ring road all the way down to the old City Center.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone with, light suspensions, fancy sport cars and old folk with dentures to be on this patch of road
Only decent piece of road on this patch is the surface area on the new fly over bridge that goes past the old city center and connects you to the new road opposite Kuwait Flour mills..