A multitude of transportation infrastructure projects and upgrades worth more than $4 billion have been planned for the Kuwait over the next few years.

Abdullateef Al Dakheel, undersecretary for roads and sanitary projects, said the projects include a 36-km causeway from Kuwait City to Subiya costing KD400 million to KD500 million ($1.7 billion).
A second project involves a 72-km motorway from the capital to the planned city of Subiya to the north costing some KD85 million. In addition, Kuwait has earmarked over a billion dinars for road infrastructure projects spread over the next five years.
Dakheel said his ministry has also submitted to the Council of Ministers a plan for a KD500 million, 35 km underground public rail network around Kuwait City, to be expanded later to the suburbs of Salmiya and Farwaniya.
Other plans include a major seaport on Bubiyan Island off Subiya to be ready to receive vessels by the end of 2008 (see below) and a tourist hub on historic Failaka Island and a city of some 500,000 inhabitants at Subiya to help ease congestion on Kuwait City and its suburbs.
Dakheel said the first project tenders will be issued in July when companies will be invited to submit bids for the Subiya road, to be built in three phases of more than 20 km each.
He said out of 59 international and local firms that showed interest in the tenders for Jaber Causeway from Kuwait City to Subiya, 11 have been prequalified and six to eight are likely to be chosen to bid in the second half of this year. Other projects in various stages of planning include a KD90 million plan to extend the First Ring Road and a KD60 million plan to develop the Fourth Ring Road over the next six years.
Also planned is an extension of the Fifth Ring Road at a cost of KD35 million and the second and third ring roads.