Bahrain Causeway or King Fahd Causeway is in all probability the most impressive road construction project of all in Bahrain. It is found that the construction of the King Fahd Causeway is linking up the island of Bahrain with the Saudi Arabian terra firma. The agreement for the construction was signed on July of year 1981 and o n the very day of 11th November of the year of 1982, the foundation stone of the bridge was jointly placed by King Fahd and Sheikh Isa bins Salman Al-Khalifa who was the contemporary the ruler of Bahrain. This Bahrain Causeway is a four-lane highway, with about 25 meters of width and approximately 26 kilometers of length.
The entire costing and the expense of the construction work about US$ 1.2 billion were contributed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This fabrication process of Bahrain Causeway was accomplished in the year of 1986 and next the Causeway was opened up for the traffic at the last part of the year.
The statistics of 2001 suggests that more or less 2.7 million cars, transporting over 10 million of commuters, had used this Bahrain Causeway.
The four-lane road (with forty ft) is of 25 kilometers of length. Five bridges with an average length of 40,781 ft were constructed using about 350,000 cubic meters of concrete in addition to 147,000 metric tons of unbreakable steel material.
The Bahrain causeway comprises with three segments, an assemblage of three bridgeworks from Khobar to the artificial island on the country of Saudi Arabia towards the border of Bahrain, including the longest bridge.