Abdul Mohsin Al-Sabti Okaz/Saudi Gazette MAKKAH – The newly completed 28-kilometer-long Briman-Makkah Highway does not have any signs on either side of the road, or warnings for several detours as work is still being carried out on the road. Okaz/Saudi Gazette visited the road and noticed that there was only one gas station built on the highway and there were trucks and tractors working on the unfinished road. There were no concrete blocks in some key sections of the road that has four lanes on either direction. Some road users expressed fear of accidents because of the absence of such barriers while others wondered when the road will be fully ready. There is no ambulance service or Civil Defense stations along the road, a fact that poses a great risk to motorists whose number will increase in the coming two months with the approach of the Haj season. Motorists also complained about the absence of U-turn facility at some sections of the road. On a 25-kilometer stretch of the road there were no U-turns and motorists in some cases were looking for unpaved shortcuts to get on the road that takes them back to Jeddah. The Ministry of Transport opened the road for traffic last week. People traveling to Makkah from north Jeddah and King Abdulaziz International Airport can take the road instead of Al-Haramain Expressway.
