The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) stated it accomplished 72% of the event works of the Umm Lekhba Interchange, higher generally known as the Landmark intersection, taking an enormous step ahead within the development of the distinguished Sabah Al Hall. Ahmad.
Throughout a current web site go to, Ali Ibrahim, Ashghal undertaking engineer, instructed the Gulf Occasions that elements of the nation's "largest interchange" ought to be open by the tip of 2019, adopted by Different openings till the tip of 2020.
With 9 bridges and 4 ranges, this 11 km lengthy interchange is the "largest of its sort in Qatar" and can guarantee easy visitors in all instructions. Of the 9 bridges, 5 include two lanes in a single course, the opposite of a lane in a single course. A few of the bridges are about 28 m excessive and equal to a nine-storey constructing.
A common view. Picture offered
A view of the works. Picture offered
A view of the exchanger below development
Ali Ibrahim, Ashghal undertaking engineer, throughout a presentation
Ibrahim stated this alternate was the second largest within the nation after Umm Bishr's on G-Ring Highway. It’s positioned at a top of 35 m, whereas the best bridge reaches 36 m.
The interchange can accommodate greater than 20,000 automobiles on the time.
The alternate features a subtle clever transportation system by which surveillance cameras, a car quantity monitor, a car classification and an emergency visitors system can be put in.
The Umm Lekhba interchange is taken into account to be the northern gateway to Doha and a "distribution station" due to its strategic location. It’s positioned at a distinguished place the place Al Shamal Highway crosses the Doha Expressway, Al Markhiya Avenue and the Sabah Al Ahmad Hall. The place witnesses an intense visitors to and from Doha by way of Al Shamal.
The place is densely populated and serves as a shopping mall additionally comprising authorities entities, academic and well being services.
When accomplished within the fourth quarter of 2020, the brand new interchange will considerably enhance visitors and cut back journey time by greater than 70% by guaranteeing free motion of automobiles.
The bridges present 9 arteries that enable visitors in 9 instructions, along with visitors on Al Shamal Highway in addition to the underpass of the previous interchange connecting Al Markhiya Avenue and the Sabah Al Ahmad hall.
The interchange will assist cut back visitors congestion on the Doha Expressway, particularly on the Al Gharrafa and Al Duhail intersections. Autos from the Doha Corniche, Markhiya, Madinat Khalifa and Duhail areas to Al Shamal Highway, Sabah Al Ahmad Hall, Al Gharrafa and Al Rayyan Gharrafat areas to Al Luqta and Al Rayyan can be insured.
The brand new junction consists of a 700 m underpass between Al Markhiya Avenue and Sabah Al Ahmad Hall. The bottom degree contains two loop bridges resulting in the Sabah Al Ahmad Hall (adjoining to the Landmark Mall and one other adjoining to the Ezdan Mall to ease visitors stress).
The bottom degree additionally contains 4 bridges that enable free motion and connects the Sabah Al Ahmad hall to Al Shamal Highway.
The second degree contains three bridges to offer visitors to and from Al Shamal Highway from Al Gharrafa to Doha and Al Shamal Highway to Sabah Al Ahmad Hall.
The undertaking contains an built-in community of ingesting water, electrical energy and handled water pipelines, in addition to an built-in rainwater drainage and repair water system. These are along with a sewer and drainage community, varied communication networks and fiber optic cables.
In response to Ashghal, the constructing of the Umm Lekhba interchange has encountered many difficulties and lots of challenges. The interchange is positioned within the busiest a part of Al Shamal Highway and is topic to many components, together with a big variety of main purchasing facilities. The works have been due to this fact deliberate to keep away from visitors and congestion disturbances on Al Shamal for street customers in Umm Lekhba and Gharrafa, in addition to in business and residential areas, stated the official.
To beat the complicated nature of the undertaking, the balanced equilibrium segmental overhang methodology was used. The discount of house and complicated
the structure of the bridges additionally necessitates the design of some bridges, which span ranges of as much as 90 m in some instances, the longest in Qatar.
