Image: Artist's Rendering, MENA Infrustructure
The Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Causeway will connect the Persian Gulf states of Qatar and Bahrain over a 40 km causeway. Construction is scheduled to begin next year at a cost of $2.3 billion. The structure will include both a roadway and a railway, and will reduce travel time between the nations to a mere 30 minutes. Once completed it will become the longest bridge in the world, surpassing the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the U.S., which is 38 km long. At the link, you can view a comparative graphic.
Link via Gizmodo
Newest 5 Comments
I wanted to say the same thing about pit stops and gas stations because that's the first thing I thought!
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
It's only 40k, fish. If you can't hold it 30 minutes or remember to gas up before hand... well, I have nothing to say, so I'll just mock you silently. ;)
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
I hope that they have a pit stop or gas station nearby.
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
the bridge will totally mess up the ecosystem there alls messing around with the currents and stuff.
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)
what a tempting target for terrorists.
Abusive comment hidden.
(Show it anyway.)