There’s still no decision to replace the dismantled Jal el Dib bridge with a new one, but Jal el Dib’s residents seem determined to get their bridge and submitted a design for a new bridge to the authorities. They will be staging yet another sit-in tomorrow at Jal el Dib’s entrance and might be blocking the highway.
I must say it looks nice and practical, but as far as I recall, it was Jal el Dib’s municipality that had a problem with such a design as it will cause few stores to close down and reshape the city’s entrance.
It doesn’t make sense, the exit on-ramp needs to be located in the middle of the highway not on the side or else Lebanon will lose what makes it unique, poor planning.
Lol well they were planning on doing it that way but Nahr el Mot municipality threatened to sue them.
Well there is a flaw in this design: where will the rain go in heavy storms? And did the designers took in consideration the underground water levels, if the tunnel will be done??
I don’t understand what CDR doing and what is their mission, doesnt they suppose to be in charge of planning and designing our cities, amazing that after months of debate they are not able to find suitable solution(BIG FAIL) the funny thing is that the locals are taking the initiative to solve their own problem.
you lot don’t know what is happening here. many designs were given. all rejected by the good people of Jal El Dib…
nahr el mot is OK. again same debate… i mean most of you live abroad, and you know what the exits look like.. service road, exit, highway… pretty simple and straight forward really. just get the people to follow traffic rules.
no need for anybody to get offensive. i wrote this promisisng myself not to say another work regarding the bridges.
have a nice day gents
My whole point is that CDR is the party in charge and they should come out with a solution suitable to all parties. By having all parties proposing solutions means CDR Failed. We are paying them big salaries and their are not doing their job.
Balleh a7san!
kil el jsoura bta3mil 3aj2a 3al fade
“kil el jsoura bta3mil 3aj2a 3al fade” seriously ? what a stupid lebanese mentality not ALL the bridges cause that havent seen a single traffic towards jounieh on antelias bridge since it was built
the only traffic is caused at nahr el mot because of ppl shifting from left to right at the last minute and in jal el dib when there was SINGLE bridge because ppl entering towards the area blocking half the highway
some bridges are essential if there’s an extension beyond the city it goes through,
like the nahr l mot bridge links the highway to the emil lahoud highway going towards b3abdat
and the antelias bridge does the same for bekfaya but as for jal dib its useless! there s no big city beyond jal dib(u can reach for bsalim and the rest of the little villages from the emil lahoud highway)!
Funny that people still think the Nahr el mot on ramp is in the middle of the highway… you cross eyed dweebs.
the Jal El Dib debacle has been going on for years with the municipality axing every plan. CDR make a shit load of mistakes, but they are not the almighty, and they are not that well paid anyhow, not near as close where they should be, and everyone else in Leb for that matter.
however the design in the building is flawed, had a chat with a CDR engineer 3 years or more back about a similar solution, and he said where would you take the water? i told himuse high powered extraction pumps… he said… at the rate of maintenance we have in Lebanon, these pumps will seize in a matter of hours… a Bridge is the safest and most logical low maintenance long term solution… but Jal El dib, with all due respect thinks that it somehow deserves much more than the other regions of Lebanon…. what to save a few crappy buildingS? they were built against codes int he first place, so were almost all the structures that flank that morbid highway…
anyway, Lebanese people should be stuck in traffic all day long, god forbid all that wasted time is put to good use, then Lebanese people will emerge as the smartest people in the world… oh wait they are! that’s why they think an highway off ramp on the the right of the road is in the middle… too smart to believe their own fucking eyesight!
you, my friend, are absolutly correct.
nahr l mot bridge is OK
jal el dib residents (shop owners) refused many designs. water table level is certainly not considered for the tunnel! good luck!
at least 1 year of the traffic jams during construction. and yearly traffic jams from flooding during rain.. i mean honestly, water can be as deep as 50 cm on the “normal” highways in lebanon… just imagine what would happen with a tunnel! lol
go to bidwino country ,emirate and KSA and see how many underground tunel,, the best designer there are lebanese, same here of course, but the difference is there boss is BIDWINO