{"id":21869,"date":"2012-08-27T19:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=21869"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:58:36","slug":"underground-rail-next-stop-for-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/editors-choice\/underground-rail-next-stop-for-jeddah\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Rail Next Stop for Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/08\/underground-rail-next-stop-for-jeddah\/jeddahcongestion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21870\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21870\" title=\"JeddahCongestion\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JeddahCongestion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JeddahCongestion.jpg 635w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JeddahCongestion-634x334.jpg 634w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JeddahCongestion-570x300.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeddah, Saudi Arabia\u2019s second-largest city, is a narrow metropolitan area, running north-south on the eastern coast of the Red Sea. Mountains bar its expansion to the east; the Red Sea, to the west. Traffic in the city is dense and, what with Saudi driving and infrastructure being what they are \u2013 not to mention the the roads often approach impassible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al-Arabiya TV<\/em> carries a Reuters report on planning for a subway system for the city. It\u2019s in its earliest planning stages and there\u2019s no timetable established, but this might relieve traffic congestion considerably. The challenges in building underground in Jeddah, where the water table is sometimes just inches below the surface, are considerable, but likely not insurmountable\u2026 given enough money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Saudi Arabia plans metro system in Jeddah<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Asma Alsharif<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) Saudi Arabia is preparing plans to build a metro system in its second largest city Jeddah, a project that would cost around 35 billion riyals ($9.3 billion), a deputy mayor of the city said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The metro system, the third one planned in the kingdom, would be 108 kilometers (68 miles) long. It would have three lines and 46 stations, according to initial studies, said Ibrahim Kutubkhana, deputy mayor for projects and construction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we are in the phase of completing the initial studies\u2026and this is being carried out by the Ministry of Transport. Later it will be tendered to international consortia for engineering, procurement and construction,\u201d Kutubkhana told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The time frame for the project will be set after the initial studies are completed, he added.<br \/>\n\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CROSSROADS ARABIA: The challenge building underground where water can be inches below the surface is considerable, but not insurmountable\u2026 given enough money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":21870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,1594],"tags":[4151,366,1134,2633,3314,18275,1595],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}