المملكة: Requiring a “fingerprint” for each traveler increases the transit time on the King Fahd Causeway – Urgent

Traffic density on King Fahd Causeway

Field sources and eyewitnesses attributed the current density to the activation of biometric “fingerprint” verification requirements for all passengers and not just card holders, which is a precise routine procedure that caused the time required for service to double. Each vehicle compared to the previous one.

This regulatory measure coincided with the conversion of the “student route” to the incoming reverse traffic service to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to facilitate the entry of arrivals, which led to the integration of the movement of departing passengers into the regular cabin routes and increased pressure on them.

Field follow-ups monitored the queues of vehicles extending for distances in front of the processing areas, as the new system requires a slightly longer stop for each car to ensure that the data of all passengers is matched through the updated fingerprint devices.

Transit time on King Fahd Causeway

Restantaneous monitoring indicators indicate that the average transit time to complete procedures ranges between 32 to 40 minutes, and these rates can be increased based on the number of passengers in each vehicle and the speed of the systems’ response to new procedures.

Passport and customs employees are working at full operational capacity to accommodate the continuous flow of vehicles, and are trying to speed up the pace of work in accordance with the required security accuracy to reduce waiting times as much as possible.

Passengers can benefit from the services. Digitally through the “Jisr” application, which allows knowing the current traffic situation and predicting the time required to cross, which helps in choosing the least crowded times to ensure a smoother journey.