The innovations of this pilgrimage –
November 28, 2009 – 11:51 pm
New technology and services experimenting with the Saudi authorities during the current season of the hajj.
This year, the bridge Jamarat, where the symbolic stoning of the devil, began to ply special electric vehicles designed for the elderly and people with disabilities.
For the lifting of pilgrims to the upper floors of the bridge running escalators. The capacity of the bridge has increased after the reconstruction, during which the already gigantic construction was added 4-th floor, which increased traffic to 350 thousand people per hour.
The government of the country also undertook to provide more than 3 million “guests of Allah” stones to perform the rite Jamarat (about killing). This produced 1 million packages (in the form of completing the bags made of velvet), with small stones, with the number in each of them calculated for 3 people. For the first time this innovation has been successfully tested last year – then handed out to pilgrims Jamarat 500 thousand packages of stones.
Special Correspondent.
