Muscat Expressway

Muscat Expressway
Highway system
Transport in Oman

Muscat Expressway (formerly known as the Southern Expressway[1]) is a major highway in Muscat, the capital of Oman, hence the name.

The expressway runs largely parallel to Sultan Qaboos Street but further away from the coast and acts as a relief road. It is 54km long.[1] The Batinah Expressway is a 256km 8-lane highway that continues from the Muscat Expressway in Halban to the United Arab Emirates border at Khatmat Malaha.[2]

he Batinah Expressway, one of the most strategically important projects of last decade built at a total cost of over RO1.5bn, will finally be opened on May 7.


Package 1 starts from Al Filaij roundabout in the Wilayat of Barka and ends in the Wilayat of Al Rustaq. Package 2 spans the distance between the Rustaq to Suwaiq with a total length of 42 km.

The 46-km long Package 3 stretches from Suwaiq to Saham, where the fourth package starts and stretches to the Wilayat of Sohar with a total length of 50 km.

Package 5 starts at the Wilayat of Sohar and ends in the Wilayat of Liwa with a total length of 41 km.

The 45-km Package 6 starts from the Wilayat of Liwa and ends at Khatmat Malaha.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Muscat Expressway: New Expressway Alleviates Congestion and Accommodates Future Growth". Parsons Corporation. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Batinah Expressway opened". Times of Oman. 22 May 2017.
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