Setting the opening dates of 5 projects within the bottleneck package, 10 may

  Setting the opening dates of 5 projects within the bottleneck package

Economy News - Baghdad

The Ministry of Construction, Housing and Municipalities announced on Friday the opening dates of 5 projects within the package of breaking traffic jams.

The ministry's spokesman, Istabraq Sabah, said in a statement seen by "Economy News", that, "The ministry is proceeding with projects to break traffic jams and implement the commitment listed for the projects of the first package within the government program," noting that "the projects of the first package consist of 16 projects and on more than one area on the sides of Karkh and Rusafa."

Sabah explained that "the Fine Arts Bridge and Cordoba Intersection have been opened, and two other projects are in the process of opening, the first project is the Shaljia Bridge and it is hoped that it will be opened this month, as well as the project to link the Mohandessin neighborhood inside, which includes two bridges, the first on the side of the engineers and the second on the inside side and a small bridge linking them, as work is underway on it and will be opened in the coming period."

He added that "next June, will witness the opening of the bridge linking from a beautiful area to the street neighborhood jihad - Bab Al-Muadham, and in July will open bridges Aden and Sanaa," noting that "the rest of the projects will be opened successively."

"A number of water and sanitation projects will be inaugurated this year, in addition to finalising a number of residential complexes that fall under low-cost housing in the southern and central provinces," he said.