Major General Mohamed El-Sherif, Governor of Alexandria, inaugurated a tunnel and bridge project on Street 45, “Anwar El-Sadat” on the Corniche Road, and the trial operation began, to relieve the Alexandrian citizen of the burdens of traffic congestion.
The Governor of Alexandria stated that the completion rate of the project reached 97%, and it includes a tunnel from Sadat Street with a width of 19 meters, consisting of 3 lanes for entry and 3 lanes for exit, with a length of approximately 150 meters, open from the top, and the tunnel continues below the Army Road, with a width of 3 lanes, entry 3 lanes. Exit 60 meters long, 6 meters high and 25 meters wide, including a right tunnel and a left pedestrian tunnel with a width of 2.5 meters and a net height of 2.5 meters.
The tunnel ends from the sea side by turning to the left, with (2) bridges consisting of exit lanes, 3 entry lanes for each of them, and they are separated from each other, with a length of approximately 200 meters to the entrance to the exit from the tunnel and a length of approximately 130 meters to the entry house to the tunnel, in addition to a walkway (bridge ) on the Corniche Road, parallel to the sea and bridges, with a length of approximately 250 meters, a width of 6 meters, and a height of 5 to 8 meters above sea level.
There are two entrances to the single pedestrian tunnel, a frontal entrance on the sidewalk of the buildings, in addition to an entrance from the top of the tunnel directly on Sadat Street, in order to reach them to the opposite side of the sea, either ascending to the walkway on the Corniche sea sidewalk or going down to the beach with lengths of 140 meters for pedestrian tunnels in all directions.
While the road was expanded from 6 lanes to 10 lanes with a width of 35 meters, in addition to two sidewalks on both sides with a length of approximately 600 meters. Sadat tunnel and bridges with a length of 600 meters.