Riyadh is urgent forward with a serious enlargement of its transport infrastructure, because the Royal Fee for Riyadh Metropolis introduced a brand new bundle of highway improvement initiatives value greater than SR8bn ($2.13bn), geared toward easing congestion, enhancing connectivity and supporting Saudi Arabia’s Imaginative and prescient 2030 objectives.
The announcement marks the launch of Bundle 3 of the Riyadh Foremost and Ring Street Axes Improvement Program, a flagship initiative designed to boost mobility throughout the Saudi capital and strengthen its place as a regional hub for sustainable transport and logistics companies.
Based on the Royal Fee for Riyadh Metropolis (RCRC), Bundle 3 includes six main initiatives scheduled for completion inside three to 4 years.
Riyadh highway initiatives
- Jeddah Street Improvement Mission (29km): The scheme consists of 14 bridges and 5 most important lanes, increasing highway corridors to accommodate rising day by day visitors volumes. As soon as accomplished, the route may have a capability of as much as 353,000 automobiles per day
- Taif Street Improvement Mission (15km): Designed to enhance visitors move between Riyadh’s southern and western districts and town centre, the challenge options 4 bridges, 4 most important lanes and two tunnels, with capability for as much as 200,000 automobiles per day
- Thumamah Street Improvement Mission – Jap Part (8km): This part will embrace three bridges and three tunnels, linking key mobility axes throughout northern and japanese Riyadh and supporting visitors volumes of as much as 200,000 automobiles per day
- King Abdulaziz Street Improvement Mission – Northern Part (4.7km): The challenge will broaden community capability and enhance effectivity by means of 4 bridges, 4 most important lanes and one tunnel, enabling visitors capability of as much as 450,000 automobiles per day
- Othman bin Affan Street Improvement Mission – Northern Part (4.3km): With seven bridges and intensive upgrades, the challenge will improve visitors move throughout northern Riyadh and assist as much as 500,000 automobiles per day
- Engineering Enhancements for Congested Areas – Section II: Concentrating on eight places throughout Riyadh’s highway community, this part will apply superior engineering options to scale back congestion and enhance intersection efficiency, growing visitors capability by 40–60 per cent
Visitors plan
RCRC mentioned it has ready a complete visitors diversion plan, coordinated with related metropolis authorities, to minimise non permanent impacts on visitors move and surrounding communities and guarantee uninterrupted mobility throughout building.
The programme traces again to February 2020, when Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Prime Minister and Chairman of the RCRC Board of Administrators, directed the event of Riyadh’s main highway axes as a part of a wider transformation of the capital.
Following that directive, RCRC launched Bundle 1 in August 2024, comprising 4 initiatives with a mixed worth of SR13bn ($3.46bn), and Bundle 2 in February 2025, which included eight initiatives exceeding SR8bn ($2.13bn).
The fee mentioned further phases of the Riyadh Foremost and Ring Street Axes Improvement Program can be introduced sooner or later, as town continues to scale up infrastructure funding consistent with Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030.
