By KUNA,
Amman : A Kuwaiti-Spanish consortium which is to build the Amman-Zarqaa light railway project in Jordan is still negotiating the contract details, said Jordan’s Director General of The Public Transport Regulatory Commission Jamil Mojahed Sunday.
Ad-Dustour paper quoted Mojahed saying agreement was reached on several aspects of the contract and that the Jordanian government hopes to launch execution as planned next June.
The consortium was the second to bid for the project, and is to execute the project as BOT, with the government fully owning the railway in 30 years.
The cost is expected around USD 216 million, and the project is to build on the infrastructure of Al-Hijazi Railway which already connects the two cities, home to over half the population of the entire Hashemite Kingdom.
Once the 28-kilometer project is completed, commuters will be able to travel between Zarqaa City and the Raghadan station in Amman city centre, which is hoped to ease traffic congestion in the two over-populated cities.