The Public Works Authority - Ashghal has been extremely busy since June 5, 2017 when the illegal blockade was announced against Qatar. The country has witnessed the opening of a number of major expressways and there has been a massive expansion in road connectivity in many areas.
While the second week of July last year saw the commissioning of the first phase of the ambitious Orbital Highway and Truck route, in the next few weeks 125km out of the nearly 190km of the country’s most significant road project opened for traffic, connecting the southern and northern sides, through seven-lane express highways on either side. The project costing a whopping QR19bn is expected to be fully commissioned by the last quarter of this year. When completed, it is hoped that a minimum of 8,000 vehicles would pass through the road every hour.
The vital expressway which bypasses all towns, cities and key locations such as Mesaieed, Wakrah, Doha, Rayyan, Industrial Area, Sheehaniya, Umm Slal and Al Khor is also ensuring flawless connectivity to all these places, through equally good well-laid roads, the works of which are already completed.
Similarly, with the opening of the interchanges 5/6 on the eve of the Qatar National Day celebrations last year, the nearly QR2bn Lusail Expressway became fully operational. In the months preceding the blockade, authorities had ensured the completion of the two major four-lane a side world-class tunnel roads on the route near the erstwhile Doha Exhibitions Centre and the other leading to The Pearl-Qatar. Of the two, the first tunnel is more than 600m long. 
The Lusail Expressway also features the tallest concrete monument on a road in the country, standing close to 100m in height and 147m in length above the bridge, located near the place where the Rainbow roundabout used to be. 
Similar road developments have also taken place in the southern areas as part of the Doha Expressway projects. Each of the newly laid roads has tremendously improved goods transportation between the Hamad Port and Doha industrial Area. Nearly 21 new interchanges providing connectivity to different locations such as Mesaieed, Wukair and Wakrah have also come into being during the 
period. 
It is expected that the infrastructure facilities for more than 32,000 land plots would be ready by the middle of 2020 as so many new road networks, drainage networks, cycle and pedestrian paths are being laid in more than a dozen locations across the country. 
The numerically larger citizen residential schemes in north and south of Wukair and Bani Hajer and Ezghawa are witnessing large scale infrastructural developmental work these days. Similar works are also taking place in Egdam, Al Froosh, Khartiyat, North of Nasseriya, Industrial Area and Al Shamal among 
other places. 
In Al Wukair area alone, the works on more than 225km of roads are almost over. A total of more than QR12bn has been earmarked to improve infrastructure facilities in the above locations and also in the other places. As part of the projects being laid, nearly 1,507km of drainage networks, 695km of road networks and 1,830km of cycle paths have been laid.