Saudi Arabia’s long-awaited Riyadh metro project has hit a major milestone as a consortium led by Spanish construction giant FCC said it has completed the drilling work related to the first tunnel section of Line Five (Green line).
According to TradeArabia, FCC said these works “represent a new milestone for the consortium after becoming the first team to reach a station having excavated the most distance of the tunnel so far – 1.2 km of the total 5 km of the line.”
Riyadh’s metro system comprises 6 lines, and is projected to open to service in 2019.
A map showing Riyadh’s forthcoming metro lines.
Two of the rail lines are being designed and built by a Bechtel-led consortium, from design, construction, train cars, and signaling―as well as electrification and integration of the new lines to the rest of the system at a cost of $10 billion.
