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Ace Teacher
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 Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject: Is it true ? |
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| A Qatari friend told me that there is a plan to build a bridge connecting Doha and Abu Dhabi... is it true ?! If it is, then I bet it is going to be a state of the art bridge.... nice one! |
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Richard_Gao
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe Doha and Abu-Dhabi is physically tooo far, over 300 km and nothing in between but open seas. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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What would be wrong with just using the highway? It is so much easier to clean up during the inevitable accidents...
I suppose you have been around long enough to learn that 'plans' don't always work out.  Granted right now they are drowning in cash flow, but even for them this would be a silly way to spend it.
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Gordon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm sure we could all dream up ways for them to spend their extra oil profits. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, they did give raises in the UAE to locals, but it seems that expat workers were excluded... |
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Ace Teacher
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Bindair Dundat
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: Is it true ? |
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There's a railroad in the works, too, from Kuwait to Oman. It's being planned with a route through eastern KSA, but also direct Bahrain-Qatar and Qatar-UAE routes -- just in case.  |
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Bindair Dundat
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| What would be wrong with just using the highway? It is so much easier to clean up during the inevitable accidents... |
"The proposed causeway will do away with the formalities of having to enter the neighbouring kingdom and shorten the distance it presently takes to travel between the two capitals."
Translation: The proposed causeway and other projects will reduce Saudi Arabia's ability to isolate and strangle its neighbors. |
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Ace Teacher
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Bindair Dundat.... you are so perceptive! Nice one ..... |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Please... don't anyone hold their breath waiting for the bridge and the railroad...
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Richard_Gao
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:20 am Post subject: |
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with RP processing taking 3 months, i won't be holding my breath waiting for the bridge to be built.  |
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veiledsentiments
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I couldn't figure out why you thought that building it on seawater would make it easier. Then I read the article... it was the shallowness of the Gulf that they suggested made it easier. I don't think sea water versus fresh water would be a factor.
But considering the number of horrific traffic accidents, the bridge would be closed down half the time to clean up the messes... probably more than half. They would need to build two bridges... one to use when the other is closed. OK, maybe three...
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Ace Teacher
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| Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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As I mentioned again VS .... making it realistic comes from the fact that the Qataris want to avoid Saudi Arabia altogether!!
And the long bridge between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain has two lanes both ways and it is quite efficient - even with the occurrences of accidents - and that is why the Qataris are so hopeful to do the same... so be optimistic VS ! |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Ace Teacher wrote: |
| ... so be optimistic VS ! |
HA!! I am hopelessly realistic...
How long is the Bahrain Bridge? How would these two bridges compare in length?
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Bindair Dundat
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| Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
I couldn't figure out why you thought that building it on seawater would make it easier. |
If they're really going to build it ON sea water, that would make it a floating bridge (like the ones in Washington State), in which case the salinity of the water might be a factor. This could be an interesting engineering project to watch.
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| But considering the number of horrific traffic accidents, the bridge would be closed down half the time to clean up the messes... |
They'll just make it about eighteen lanes wide and keep a battalion of tow trucks on hand... Dump the wrecks into the deep. Build an island on them and sell building lots to foreigners. |
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