It’s designed to accommodate as much as 900 autos per hour, offering direct entry to Mall of the Emirates automobile parks for motorists arriving from Abu Dhabi and Jebel Ali.
The bridge is a part of a broader infrastructure improve across the mall, together with expanded entrances, improved intersections, enhanced pedestrian walkways, and new biking tracks — all geared toward enhancing site visitors movement and accessibility for residents and guests.
Enhancing the Dubai street community
Mattar Al Tayer, Director Basic, Chairman of the Board of Government Administrators of the RTA, stated the venture displays the authority’s dedication to working with actual property improvement companions to enhance the infrastructure serving Dubai’s property and retail locations.
He defined that the initiative included the development of the 300m bridge and upgrades to the Umm Suqeim junction, widening the southbound ramp and enhancing entry from Umm Suqeim Avenue to the present bridge resulting in the automobile parks.
Al Tayer added that 2.5 km of at-grade roads round Mall of the Emirates have been upgraded, together with six signalised intersections.
The bus station on the Mall of the Emirates Metro Station was modified, and the street adjoining to the Kempinski Lodge was transformed from one-way to two-way site visitors.
The works additionally included enhancements to pedestrian and biking tracks, street paving, lighting, site visitors alerts, stormwater drainage, and landscaping.
Dubai site visitors advantages
In keeping with Al Tayer, the brand new bridge reduces journey time for motorists coming from Abu Dhabi and Jebel Ali to Mall of the Emirates from 10 minutes to only one minute.
The improve additionally enhances site visitors effectivity and improves street security within the surrounding areas.
RTA may even launch the Umm Suqeim Avenue Enchancment Challenge this yr, extending 6km from its junction with Jumeirah Avenue to Al Khail Street.
The venture will improve six main junctions, connecting Umm Suqeim Avenue with:
- Jumeirah Avenue
- Al Wasl Avenue
- Sheikh Zayed Street
- First Al Khail Avenue
- Al Asayel Avenue
- Al Khail Street
The scope consists of 4 bridges and two tunnels with a mixed size of three.45km. Employees will construct one of many key tunnels on the junction of Umm Suqeim Avenue and Jumeirah Avenue, that includes two lanes in every course and a signalised at-grade junction to enhance surface-level site visitors movement.
They may assemble one other tunnel on the junction with Al Wasl Avenue, offering two lanes for autos heading from Sheikh Zayed Street in direction of Jumeirah Avenue.
Engineers will add two bridges on the junction of Umm Suqeim Avenue and Sheikh Zayed Street to get rid of present site visitors overlap, together with at-grade enhancements on the First Al Khail Street junction.
Elevated capability and connectivity
“The venture additionally provides a lane on Umm Suqeim Avenue from its junction with First Al Khail Street to Al Asayel Avenue, growing capability to 4 lanes in every course,” Al Tayer stated.
He famous that the venture additionally consists of the development and widening of two bridge crossings — one linking Al Khail Street to Al Quoz Industrial Space, and one other connecting Umm Suqeim Avenue to Al Khail Street within the course of Deira.
Mall of the Emirates redevelopment
Mall of the Emirates, which first opened in 2005, welcomes greater than 40 million guests yearly. To mark its twentieth anniversary, Majid Al Futtaim — the area’s main developer and operator of buying malls, retail, and leisure locations — has introduced a AED5bn ($1.36bn) redevelopment of the mall.
The growth will add 20,000sqm of retail area, introducing as much as 100 new luxurious, vogue, and way of life retailers, in addition to a brand new well being membership, cultural centre, and eating district.
The redevelopment additionally options main infrastructure upgrades to boost accessibility and customer expertise.
Three five-star accommodations — Kempinski Lodge, Novotel Suites Mall Avenue Dubai, and Sheraton Mall of the Emirates Lodge — at present function inside Mall of the Emirates, which connects on to the Mall of the Emirates Metro Station through a pedestrian bridge.
