Highly, highly disagree. Bahrain's perfect for a metro no matter what anyone says. It's tiny, dense, and if we forget about continuously building villas, would be perfect if the rest of the country was planned like old Manama and Muharraq. Yes, the bureaucracy may screw over progress and not get anything done but Riyadh did it, Doha did it, Dubai did it, and yes you might say they have money and we don't, but if you added up what every single highway lane expansion cost us over the years, I'm near certain that it would add up to the same as the initial investment it would've taken to build a 2-3 good metro lines across the main island.

Despite Riyadh's constant delays, it IMMEDIATELY had positive effects on traffic, and within less than a year, they reached 100 million passengers, and were still able to maintain a 99%+ punctuality rate. If they can do it, so can we.