Sheraton Road, Sakala Square and the Mamsha on Hurghada's New Repaving List - With Traffic Changes to Follow

Red Sea Governor Walid El-Barqi has reordered Hurghada's road and paving plan for the 2026-27 financial year and named the streets it covers, alongside the traffic changes that will follow, according to the National Media Authority and Al-Masry Al-Youm.

He set new criteria for deciding priority: the main axes that serve the largest number of the city's districts, traffic density, the touristic and visual importance of a road, and how far utility works there have got. Areas where utility work is already finished go first, so paving can start at once without the road being dug up again afterwards.

The roads put forward for development and resurfacing across the plan's stages are:

• the route from Midan 51 through Sakala Square to the Qatari Mosque
• Sheraton Road and Old Sheraton Road
• the tourist promenade (the Mamsha)
• the service road along El-Nasr Road, and the El-Hegaz service road
• the Mubarak link to the middle coastal road at Mubarak 7
• Mubarak 11, 12, 13 and 14, and El-Geish
• the kitchen blocks area, the schools road links, El-Mostalzamat, Tamer and El-Mashroaat
• Intercontinental, and the Hegaz to El-Hadaba link

A number of these axes and main streets were approved for inclusion in the new financial year's plan at the meeting, with priorities reviewed against the city's needs, traffic volumes and the state of the utilities.

El-Barqi ordered coordination with the utility companies before any paving starts, so that network jobs in the target areas are finished first. He also told officials to complete the tendering procedures for the approved projects, check the tender and supervision documents, and start to a clear timetable, with a logistics plan linking the contractors, the North and South Hurghada districts, the utility authorities and the Red Sea traffic department.

The meeting was attended by the governorate secretary-general, the brigadier who heads the Red Sea traffic department and his representatives, the governor's office director and the directors of projects, planning, plan follow-up and geospatial urban planning.

The reports do not give a start date for any individual street, the order the stages will run in, or how long each road will be affected.

The practical warning is in the last line of that list. Sheraton Road, the Mamsha and the Sakala approach are the roads most visitors use, and the ones the town's traffic already struggles with. Work on them, plus changes to traffic flow, means disruption before improvement.