The road above the causeway runs in two opposite directions each being 11.6 meters wide with two lanes and a curb for emergency parking.
	The causeway is twenty-five kilometers in length. The Saudi portion begins at Al-‘Aziziyyah located south of Al-Khobar City and the Bahrain portion of the causeway begins right from Al-Jasra west of Manama.
	The causeway comprises of five bridges and seven embankments.
	There are (536) concrete columns beneath and along the causeway.
	Roads linking the causeway and the inland road network in both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Bahrain were constructed at the length of (32) kilometers up to Al Khobar and Dhahran City and at the length of (13) kilometers up to Manama City.

The plan for construction of the causeway and its ancillaries included the execution of four contracts is as follows:

	The first contract included the construction of the causeway and the embankments at a cost of SR 2,237 millions.
	The second contract: For the construction of the border station and buildings at a cost of SR 362 millions.
	Third Contract: For erection of the access roads and crossroads linking the causeway to the main Saudi inland roads network at a cost of SR 200 millions.
	Fourth Contract: For erection of the access roads and crossroads linking the causeway to the main roads network in Bahrain at a cost of SR 128 millions.
	Technical and administrative supervision costs reached SR 86 millions.
	Total cost of the causeway and its ancillaries was (SR 3,013 millions) three-thousands and thirteen million Saudi Riyals