03/09/2014
Director of roads and transportation in the region stressed on quality on Tuesday meeting
Al Yami eager to accelerate the completion of projects with vital quality control standards
Road projects under implementation in the region amounted to 51 projects
The Director of the Department of roads and transport in the eastern region engineer Ahmed Alyamy stressed on following -up the implementation of vital projects and key in the region and urging contractors to finish the important part of the local people and visitors who will be able to benefit from a particularly linked to vital sectors in Al Khobar, Dammam, affecting economic life and tourism. Al Yami stressed in the East Chamber interview Tuesday in the monthly yesterday evening 2 September in 2014 main headquarters in Dammam, headed by the Chamber Secretary Abdulrahman Abdullah Al wabil saying that the Administration would stand on some projects which are running a lot of local residents and businesses through field visits in order to come up with a plan to facilitate the implementation of projects and quality control and address the constraints that they face.
The meeting was well-attended by businessmen in the region, economists and those interested in the project to develop and improve entrances to half Moon Bay is in its second phase, noting the Department had some comments on the first stage and communicated to the contractor, stood on the field, pointing out that the Ministry of transport were represented by the Department of transport in the region aimed at high quality implementation will follow all the projects on this basis, adding that the Administration will continue with the contractor to work on the opening part of the project to serve visitors to the beach from each Regions and contribute to removing congestion, pointing out that the Kingdom of developmental stage and need some time to improve the roads and need the patience of the citizen as will.
On the movement of trucks and some of the observations are recorded on the performance drivers and their commitment to the rules of the traffic engineer despite the pressure involved in the implementation of traffic systems and traffic safety in the region, but some of them causing over losses to themselves and others and pursue management through traffic safety Committee with the participation of a number of stakeholders – members of the Commission, which is trying as much as possible to prevent such abuses, and regulate the movement of trucks and transit and cargo weights, and adjust the movement that causes the disruption of roads, indicating that while There are regulations and fines and the balance of the movement of trucks but some try to bypass regulations.
And on overdue road projects vital to Dammam-Khobar coast road said that the project aims at improving road and traffic efficiency, stressing that it is of important roads in the area, and will ease congestion by opening the King Fahad Highway, it also serves people crossing the road to Dammam, Qatif, from the news, or vice versa, has been completed, 70 percent are now in the third phase of the project. He said that the road projects under implementation in the region amounted to 51 projects management follow up maintenance of roads through 9 signed maintenance contracts for the maintenance of roads with a total length of approximately (5,600) km. The Department also pursued the project in the region of Jubail Qassim along 330 kilometers, is also working on a design project hail-AZ zabirah-Batin-RA fast in the region.
And about the challenges facing the Department in the area engineer Yami that Eastern feature industrial vitality and development accelerated as the heart of industrial geography, which is a challenge to evolution, in addition to the geographic region and looked at vital installations in the area and lack of concentration in one place, adjacent to the border of the Gulf region which is also a big challenge, a ground area is an important Gulf passage with five States, and the region's capacity and infrastructure is an attractive strategy to make it a suitable place to fit new stages of development In the Kingdom, such as the mining industry, petrochemical industry, secondary industries.
To overcome those challenges Al Yami said that the Ministry's efforts to activate the main pillars and strengthening the means to reach the highest level of transport and roads to the area and traffic safety and quality control, and in the interest of the Ministry of transport is represented in the General Directorate of roads and transport in the eastern region of the importance of their role in the creation and award and the application of the rules and regulations of the road traffic safety of the region, the Ministry has played an important role under the specialization with the relevant authorities and linked through the Committee on traffic safety in the eastern region.
The work also began to develop a project to monitor the traffic on the main arterial roads in the area. The project includes the establishment of an annual program where stations to count and classify vehicles and monitor its speed. And have started to prepare for this project and the section locate traffic count stations as important for each maintenance operation, applying the principles of quality and extension of cooperation between the Department and Saudi Aramco were a memorandum of understanding with Aramco to cooperate in improving the quality of roads in the area and provide management with a group of engineers in charge of quality control of road works for the Ministry and find opportunities for business performance improvement, as engineers is set by the quality control of Aramco, are currently working With the roads where the quality team focuses on creating and activating mechanisms for quality control of road works carried out by contractors. Finally The Board member Faisal Saleh Ahmed Al-Quraishi, honored the guest of the meeting with Memorial shield.
