MINA, Saudi ArabiaMINA, Saudi Arabia — Some Muslims beginning the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Sunday have a new way to avoid the crowds: an elevated light-rail that will whisk them ...

Metro Report International reports that crews from Malaysia are now in Mecca, performing the tests and inspections needed to get the world’s biggest special-event metro service ready for its one-week ...

DUBAI, May 25 (Reuters) - A $16.5 billion metro railway project planned for Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca has been delayed so that its financing can be restructured, an official said on Wednesday, ...

Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet approved the construction of a metro system in the holy city of Mecca that will cost $16.5 billion, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The system, which is to have 182 kilometers ...

MINA, SAUDI ARABIA—Some Muslims beginning the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Sunday have a new way to avoid the crowds: an elevated light-rail that will whisk them between holy sites. The ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia has unveiled an elevated light-rail system to shuttle some Muslims who began the hajj yesterday between Islam's holy sites, part of plans to turn the ancient ...

As the largest annual pilgrimage in the world, Hajj poses a steep and at-times dangerous logistical nightmare for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2008, for example, about 3 million pilgrims from ...

Firms sought for major light rail projects in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina Saudi Arabia has invited project management firms to bid for work on three proposed major metro schemes, as it pushes ahead with ...

Prequalified groups have until 6 July to submit bids for first phase of metro scheme The Mecca Municipality has prequalified 10 consortiums to bid for the contract to build the first phase of the ...

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