The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded the contract for the event of the Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road intersection with Al Awir Street and Al Manama Road, as a part of wider efforts to enhance site visitors move and assist city development throughout the emirate.
The challenge will ship 2.3km of bridges, expanded lanes, upgraded service roads, and new entry factors serving residential and improvement areas alongside Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road and Al Awir Street in each instructions.
As soon as accomplished, it’s anticipated to considerably enhance capability and scale back congestion alongside the hall.
Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road intersection
The scheme will improve the road’s capability from 5,200 automobiles per hour in each instructions to 14,400 automobiles per hour in each instructions—a rise of 176 per cent.
Journey time alongside the route is about to fall from 20 minutes to simply 5 minutes, with completion scheduled for the third quarter of 2028.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director Common, Chairman of the Board of Govt Administrators of the Roads and Transport Authority, mentioned: “Endeavor this challenge is a part of RTA’s grasp plan to develop the roads, bridges, crossings, and tunnels community to accommodate rising site visitors volumes, improve mobility, and guarantee smoother site visitors move throughout Dubai.
“This plan helps the wants of city growth and inhabitants development. The challenge serves residential and improvement areas with a mixed inhabitants of residents and guests exceeding 600,000.
“The challenge contains changing the prevailing roundabout right into a grade-separated intersection that permits free-flowing site visitors actions in all instructions.
“The works contain setting up predominant bridges on Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road with 4 lanes in every path, together with constructing ramps for right- and left-turn actions, every comprising two lanes.”
“The challenge additionally contains setting up a bridge on the intersection of Al Awir Street with Emirates Street to serve site visitors heading in direction of Al Awir and Sharjah, in addition to creating parallel service roads alongside Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road and Al Awir Street in each instructions to offer secure entry factors serving the encompassing improvement areas.”
Al Manama Road upgrades
He additional defined:“ The challenge contains upgrading the floor roads on the intersection of Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road with Al Manama Road. The scope entails widening Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road from two to 4 lanes in every path to extend capability and enhancing the signalised floor intersection to enhance its operational effectivity and broaden its site visitors capability.
The challenge may even present secure entry factors to serve the encompassing improvement areas.”
Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Road improvement
The advance of Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road kinds a part of RTA’s broader programme of street upgrades, which started with the event of the road’s extension via the development of a four-lane street in every path over a 25km stretch, from its intersection with Dubai–Al Ain Street to the roundabout on Al Yalayis Road.
A number of surrounding intersections had been additionally upgraded as a part of these works.
A grade-separated interchange was constructed on the intersection of Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Road with Latifa bint Hamdan Road close to the doorway to International Village for site visitors inbound from Emirates Street.
A signalised roundabout was constructed on the intersection with Al Qudra Road, together with a signalised floor intersection on the junction with Hessa Road. These measures symbolize interim site visitors options that can be additional enhanced via future upgrades.
Dubai Silicon Oasis
The challenge additionally included enhancements alongside the part extending from Dubai–Al Ain Street to the Tutorial Metropolis roundabout, masking roughly three kilometres.
This section concerned setting up two bridges on the Dubai Silicon Oasis intersection, every 120 metres lengthy, offering 4 lanes in every path and a complete capability of 14,400 automobiles per hour in each instructions.
A signalised floor intersection was additionally constructed beneath the bridges, comprising 20 lanes in all instructions with a capability of 8,000 automobiles per hour.
These enhancements had been designed to make sure smoother site visitors move in direction of Dubai Silicon Oasis and Zayed College, whereas enhancing motion on the Tutorial Metropolis roundabout.
