Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has accomplished site visitors enhancements at greater than 50 places throughout the emirate in 2024. These enhancements are a part of RTA’s strategic plan for fast site visitors options, designed to boost highway community effectivity, guarantee smoother site visitors circulate, and enhance security for all highway customers. The initiatives align with Dubai’s city growth and inhabitants development whereas addressing rising site visitors volumes on the town’s roads.
These site visitors enhancements kind a key part of RTA’s long-term mobility technique, underscoring its dedication to steady highway growth in accordance with the best security and site visitors effectivity requirements. The enhancements assist the management’s imaginative and prescient of positioning Dubai because the world’s finest metropolis for dwelling and mobility.
“The site visitors options applied in 2024 have had a major affect on enhancing highway community effectivity, bettering automobile circulate, and lowering journey instances by as much as 60% at varied places all through Dubai. Moreover, these enhancements have elevated highway capability by as much as 20% in a number of areas,” detailed Hussain Al Banna, CEO of Site visitors and Roads Company at RTA.
Al Banna added: “These enhancements have performed a vital position in optimising automobile motion on main roads whereas rising the capability of highway networks in addition to entry and exit factors. Key places that underwent enhancements embrace the widening of Beirut Avenue, upgrades on the intersection of Al Khawaneej Avenue and Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Avenue, lane expansions from Al Rebat Avenue to Enterprise Bay Crossing, the growth of the exit from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Highway to Al Rebat Avenue, and the creation of a brand new route linking Al Khail Highway to Meydan Avenue.
“RTA carried out eight site visitors enchancment tasks masking greater than 37 colleges throughout Dubai in 2024. These tasks included widening roads round college zones, creating extra parking areas, enhancing entry and exit factors, and introducing site visitors diversions to alleviate congestion and minimise ready instances. Consequently, peak-hour site visitors circulate improved by 20%.”
The enhancements spanned a number of colleges throughout Dubai, together with Kings’ Faculty on Umm Suqeim Avenue, The Worldwide Faculty of Choueifat – Dubai, and Dubai School on Hessa Avenue, together with colleges in Al Safa, Al Warqa 4, Al Qusais, Al Mizhar, Nad Al Sheba, and Al Twar 2. These enhancements have enhanced highway effectivity and site visitors security whereas lowering journey instances at school zones, making certain a safer and smoother commuting expertise for college kids, mother and father, and schoolgoers.
To accommodate inhabitants development and concrete growth, RTA prolonged Exit 55 resulting in Al Rebat Avenue by 600 metres, rising the variety of lanes from two to a few. These enhancements expanded the highway’s capability to 4,500 automobiles per hour and lower journey time from 10 minutes to simply 4 minutes, a 60% enchancment, enhancing mobility on Dubai’s key roads.
As a part of efforts to optimise site visitors circulate in Nad Al Sheba, RTA launched a brand new entry and exit for automobiles arriving from Meydan Avenue and transformed the intersection of Latifa Bint Hamdan Avenue with Nad Al Sheba Avenue right into a roundabout. These enhancements lowered journey time by 60% and improved site visitors circulate, making certain extra environment friendly and handy entry to the world.
“RTA is ready to implement over 75 site visitors enhancements throughout key areas in Dubai all through 2025. The deliberate enhancements embrace increasing and upgrading main intersections, setting up new entry and exit factors in residential and industrial areas, and introducing a sequence of fast site visitors options at school zones. We are going to proceed to strengthen Dubai’s place as one of many world’s main cities in infrastructure high quality, seamless mobility, and sustainable transportation,” concluded Al Banna.
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