
Contractors working on the Doha Metro have excavated 18.6km of the tunnels (about 20 percent) on the massive transportation project, which officials say remains on track to start operating in late 2019. The first phase of the public transit project, which is intended to ease Doha’s worsening traffic jams as well as move large numbers of football fans around the country during the 2022 World Cup, will consist of 37 stations. However, Qatar Rail said today that not all stations will be immediately accessible to the public. Do you want to know more about transportation in Doha? Click here and read the interview with the tour guide Leila Martinez.