3 bridges to ease traffic towards Dubai airport
dubai — Three new bridges will be opened on Dubai’s Airport Street next Friday (April 27), which will considerably ease traffic towards the Dubai International Airport, it was announced on Saturday. Once these bridges are opened, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will have opened all the bridges on the arterial street.
A two-lane tunnel will be opened to serve the traffic inbound from the Airport Street heading towards Marrakech Street in July this year.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, said: “Bridges to be opened include a two-lane bridge to serve the traffic from Nad Al Hamar Street to the Airport Street. This bridge will ease the snarls resulting from the overlapping traffic at Nad Al Hamar Interchange between the first circular slope heading leftward from Nad Al Hamar to the Airport Street, and the second circular slope heading leftward from the Airport Street to Nad Al Hamar Street. The traffic on the first circular slope will be limited to U-turns in the direction of Nad Al Hamar Street.”
Upgrading the Marrakech-Aiport Streets Junction includes the opening of a ramp leading to Terminal 3 of the Dubai International Airport that avoids waiting at the junction.
The RTA will also open the bridge leading to the premises of the Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects (previous location of the Dubai Airshow).
“The opening of all bridges at the four junctions of the Airport Street increases the intake of the Airport Street by 5,000 vehicles per hour,” said Al Tayer.
The project reduces the total waiting time at the Casablanca Intersection and eases the tailbacks generated by the overlapping traffic between vehicles heading towards the Casablanca junction and others coming from Terminal 1 heading leftwards to the Casablanca Street.