In preparation for Khareef Season, Road Construction and Maintenance works continues

Muscat: In preparation for Khareef Season 2023, maintenance and road construction work is being carried out in Dhofar Governorate.

The Directorate General of Roads and Land Transport in Dhofar Governorate is carrying out the construction and maintenance of roads to provide a safe and integrated structure with urban and economic development, as part of the preparations for the Dhofar Khareef Season 2023.

Engineer Said bin Mohammed Tabuk, Director General of the Directorate General of Roads and Land Transport in Dhofar Governorate, said: “The cumulative completion rate of the project to design and implement slope stabilisation works on Argut-Sarafit Road in the Wilayat of Dhalkut, at a cost of OMR 11.36 million, has reached 31 percent. The project includes lane change works, severance works and landfills, in addition to the accompanying construction works and necessary protection works. It is hoped that it will be completed in the middle of the last quarter of 2024.”

The cumulative completion rate of the construction of the box ferries in Wadi Adonab in the Wilayat of Salalah reached to 85 percent, at a cost of about OMR 1.5 million. It is hoped that the works will be completed and traffic on the road will be opened by the end of June, the Director General added.

On the full bridge project in Wilayat of Rakhyut, which cost OMR 3.2 million, the Director General of the Directorate General of Roads and Land Transport in Dhofar Governorate confirmed that the completion rate at the end of May 2023 was 60 percent. It includes construction works for box culverts and necessary protective works. It is hoped that the project will be completed at the beginning of Q4 of 2023.

Engineer Said added that the Directorate is intensifying maintenance work for roads and their components in various locations in the governorate, including the annual maintenance project for the asphalt road network in Dhofar Governorate for five years at a cost of OMR 3 million. The project includes routine maintenance of the asphalt road network with a length of 2110 km, road components in separate locations, and road damage removal. Pointing out that the tender will continue until June 2027.

The Director General of the Directorate General of Roads and Land Transport in Dhofar Governorate referred to the annual maintenance project for the mountain dirt road network, which costs OMR 2.1 million, as well as the maintenance of the desert dirt road network, at a cost of OMR 2.4 million. These tenders include filling potholes, removing dirt and surveying roads, in addition to opening roads and maintaining guiding regulations. The tender will continue until January 2027.

Regarding the project to repair the damages on the Mirbat-Hasik-Al-Shuwaimiya road as a result of the tropical depression 2020, he explained that the project, which costs OMR 1.18 million, includes removing damages on the road and re-implementing the asphalt layers in the affected sites, in addition to concrete protection works.

“The Directorate General of Roads and Land Transport in the Dhofar Governorate periodically removes accumulated sand on the main road, starting from the Al-Ghaftin area, passing through the Wilayat of Muqshin and the Qatbit region, where the monsoons are active during the Khareef season leading to the movement of sand and its accumulation on the roads,” the Director General pointed.