Pedestrian bridge on E-Ring road to open soon

Doha: The pedestrian bridge on E-Ring road is almost ready and is expected to open for public in June. This will be a great blessing for many pedestrians who need to cross the road especially to reach the Old Airport Traffic Department office (murur).

Workers were today installing 22mm two layered (11mmx2) laminated tempered glass on the bridge. The 66.125 metre long bridge is 12.5 metre high across the E-Ring road between Al Thumama and Old Airport and is expected to be opened for public in June.

Ashghal is building the bridge to ease the problem of pedestrians to cross this busy road. This is expected to help the traffic and will reduce causalities and injuries due to road accidents in this area.
Construction work is going on and the major part of installing the overhead bridge is over.

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment had announced towards the end of last year that it will construct 15 pedestrian bridges in different places in Qatar, in coordination with roads department of the Ministry of Transport. 

They had also mentioned that some bridges will be equipped with shops, restaurants, toilets, ATMs and electric elevators.