King Fahad Causeway marks 35 years of operations

King Fahad Causeway marks 35 years of operations

King Fahad Causeway, a series of bridges and causeways that link the island of Bahrain and Saudi mainland, today celebrates 35 years of operations. The impressively-engineered causeway, Bahrain’s only terrestrial link with another country, is named after former Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Work on the 25-kilometre long and 23.3 meters wide causeway was launched in 1981 following studies about numerous geographic and technical details, environmental factors and maritime currents. It was opened to the public on November 26, 1986 during a grand ceremony attended by the Late King Fahad and HH the Late Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. Cars, buses, trucks, and more recently motorcycles have been steadily using the link to travel quite seamlessly in both directions, boosting its political, economic, social and cultural significance as more than just a road causeway to millions of people and the two Kingdoms and well beyond. Around 400 million people have used the causeway since it was opened. For most people, the causeway sums up the ease with which they have been able to travel between the two countries Several Saudi Arabia-based Saudi nationals and foreigners who work or study in Bahrain commute