The Railways Authority is studying sections of the planned route of the Haramain Train that could be threatened by flooding in the future. An official at the authority said that sections passing through the governorate of Jeddah could involve bridges and raised sections of track to mitigate against flooding, but assured that the planned route of the train would remain unchanged. “The recent floods did not affect the track route, due to the precautions that had been taken,” the source said. The Road Projects supervisor in Jeddah, meanwhile, said that no alterations would be made to the new ring road passing through the districts of Al-Harazat and Al-Sawa'ed as the Ministry of Transport had previously conducted “all studies to secure the project through bridges and overpasses”. Atiya Al-Zahrani said the first phase of construction was being undertaken with the second due to begin “soon”. “The length of the new ring road will connect up the north of Jeddah with the east and west over some 90km, at a distance of approximately six kilometers from the Haramain Highway,” Al
