Qatar Bahrain Causeway

The Friendship Bridge (Arabic Jisr al - جسر المحبة Mahabba, DMG Ǧisr al - mahabba, Eng. Qatar -Bahrain Causeway also ) is a bridge under construction between Qatar and Bahrain. With completion of the bridge is a direct rail and road link between the two countries was first created, which shortens the car travel time to one hour. Without the bridge so far a detour with a travel time of five hours on the mainland of Saudi Arabia must be taken into account.

The friendship bridge is to be the world 's longest bridge with a length of 45 kilometers. You should have two lanes in each direction and a hard shoulder and two additional tracks for freight and passenger trains. The passenger train from Doha to Manama is planned as a high speed of 350 km / h top speed. The German Railway has secured this billion-dollar contract with delivery of trains worth 17 billion euros, which runs currently sluggish.

The cost of the bridge was initially estimated at 2.7 billion U.S. dollars, the construction was planned for the first quarter of 2010. Due to the financial crisis and the unresolved question of the railway technology is used, the start of construction was first placed. Construction has begun on the side of Qatar in 2011, while Bahrain was still suffering from the consequences of the financial crisis and broke the Anschlussbau in Bahrain. Construction is expected to take four and a half years to complete and cost $ 3 billion U.S. dollars.