Air-Conditioned Bridges for Al Ain

Al Ain: The municipality will construct three new air-conditioned overhead bridges with lift facility for pedestrians in Al Ain City in the first quarter of 2009.

Salih Al Mazroui, head of the roads maintenance department at the civic body said: "Three new bridges will be constructed in the Al Ain Industrial Area towards Al Ain downtown area, the Al Zafarana market area, and near the Shaikh Mubarak roundabout."

He said that the municipality will give the project of re-planning the streets and putting up zebra lines to a private company.

"The municipality will maintain areas that have traditional houses such as the Seeh Bany Ammar area with new posts for street lights and pavements," he added. The project of maintaining the traditional house areas will be done in two phases, the first phase of which will cost Dh200 million.

In addition, the civic body will maintain 19 fountains in the city.

Source - © Khaleej Times [05 December 2008]