U.A.E.: Corniche expansion work in high gear.

Bulldozers rumble day and night to bury the water off Abu Dhabi city as part of a major project to expand its landmark Corniche and ease traffic pressure on one of the biggest seaside roads in the region, officials said yesterday. In a little over a month after forcing their way into the azure Gulf waters that surround the capital, an area of more than three square kilometres has been buried by earth extracted from the seabed, expanding the area of the city itself.

The Corniche road is around 6.5 kilometres long and 100 metres wide, including traffic lanes, parks and pedestrian paths. The new project will expand that width by at least 150 metres, most of which has already been covered. Work began in the middle of the Corniche nearly five weeks ago and ...