The General Budget 2025 allocated RO 900 million for development projects under 'development expenditure' and programs approved within the budgets of civil ministries and government units.
Of these 36 percent has been allocated for the infrastructure sector, which includes major road projects to be implemented and completed this year such as the Khasab-Daba-Lima Road, Al Sharqiyah Expressway, Adam-Thamrait Road, and Ansab-Jafnain dualisation project.
In the roads sector, expansion of the Muscat Expressway will begin this year.
Khasab-Daba-Lima Road
The 70-kilometer road will connect the Wilayat of Dibba with the Wilayat of Khasab, via Lima, in the Musandam Governorate.
The road drive can be a major tourist attraction as it overlooks the Sea of Oman and it will reduce the travel time between Khasab and Lima to 22 minutes and from Lima to Dibba to 33 minutes when completed. In total, the Khasab to Lima will be covered in 55 minutes.
The project will include 11 bridges over Wadis and 350 box culverts.
Al Sharqiyah Expressway
The project includes upgrading the current road to a dual carriageway with three lanes, covering around 52km from Al Kamil to Sur. The road from the Sur roundabout to the Sur Plaza Hotel will be upgraded to a dual carriageway with two lanes over a length of about 3km. It also includes converting the Bilad Sur Roundabout to traffic signals.
Adam-Thamrait Road
Contracts have been awarded for the remaining three parts of the Adam-Thamrait Road dualization project, stretching 400 km from the Wilayat of Haima to the Wilayat of Thamrait. The tender for Part 3 includes the distance between Haima and Maqshin (132.5 km), Part 4 will be between Maqshin and Dawkah (135 km), and Part 5 between Dawkah and Thamrait (132.7) km. The project includes box culverts, rest areas, police parking, emergency parking, service streets, and medium drainage pipes.
Ansab-Jafnain dualisation
This project aims to provide a direct link between Muscat Al Dakhiliyah and North Al Sharqiyah Governorates by easing the load on the Al Rusayl-Muscat Expressway.
development plan includes the construction of a three-lane road in each direction, and the conversion of three roundabouts at Al Ansab Road between Muscat Expressway and Falaj Al Sham Area into flyovers and interchanges with traffic signals.
Muscat Expressway
The Muscat Expressway expansion project involves the construction of three more lanes in both directions bringing to 12 the total lane number with 6 lanes in each direction making it the widest road in the Sultanate of Oman. The project involves boosting the efficiency of some multi-level intersections and increasing the acceleration and deceleration lanes on the expressway. This is in addition to expanding existing bridges, implementing water drainage channels and slope protections, building concrete barriers and other protective barriers as well as replacing the current lighting system with an environmentally friendly LED system.
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