RTA Achieves Completion of Al Khail Road Development Project Across Seven Key Locations

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) successful Dubai has completed each phases of Al Khail Road Development Project, which included the operation of 5 bridges spanning 3,300 metres and roadworthy widening implicit 6,820 metres. These improvements are dispersed crossed 7 locations on Al Khail Road, namely Al Jaddaf, Business Bay, Zabeel, Meydan, Al Quoz 1, Ghadeer Al Tair, and Jumeirah Village Circle. The task serves 1.5 cardinal radical and contributes to a 30% simplification successful question clip portion expanding the capableness of existing intersections and bridges to accommodate astir 19,600 vehicles per hour. It besides enhances postulation travel connected Al Khail Road, resolves postulation overlapping astatine interchanges, and ensures free-flowing traffic.

RTA adopted a caller attack to accelerate construction, reducing the operation play from 18 months to 9 months—an 80% reduction—by awarding contracts to aggregate companies. As a result, the regular workforce of 5,000 engineers and labourers was deployed, logging six cardinal enactment hours, and utilizing 650 machines and instrumentality daily.

Road Network Development
Al Khail Road Development Project is 1 of the cardinal strategical projects aimed astatine upgrading parallel and supporting roadworthy corridors to Sheikh Zayed Road, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, and Emirates Road. It is besides 1 of the superior arterial roads successful Dubai, starting from the Business Bay Crossing and ending astatine its intersection with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road. The roadworthy consists of 5 lanes successful each direction, expanding to much than six lanes successful immoderate areas.

Seven Locations
The task included the operation of 5 bridges and the improvement and widening of roads successful 7 locations, arsenic follows:
Zabeel: A 700-metre span was constructed, betwixt Oud Metha Street and Financial Centre Street intersections, connecting postulation from Zabeel Palace Street and Oud Metha Street to Al Khail Road towards Jebel Ali. The span consists of 3 lanes with an estimated capableness of 4,800 vehicles per hour.

Meydan: A 610-metre span with 2 lanes was built, betwixt Al Meydan Road and Ras Al Khor Road intersections, connecting postulation from Meydan Street to Al Khail Road towards Deira, with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour. Additionally, improvements were made to 1,550 metres of aboveground roads to nexus postulation from Al Khail Road towards Ras Al Khor Street.

Al Quoz 1: A 650-metre span with 2 lanes was constructed, betwixt the intersections of Al Meydan Road and Al Waha Street, connecting postulation from Meydan Street to Al Khail Road towards Jebel Ali, with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour. Works besides included 2,170 metres of aboveground roadworthy improvements to link postulation from Al Khail Road to Al Waha Street and Latifa Bint Hamdan Street.
Ghadeer Al Tair: A 640-metre span with 2 lanes was constructed, betwixt the intersections of Al Meydan Road and Latifa bint Hamdan Street, connecting postulation from Latifa Bint Hamdan Street to Al Khail Road towards Deira, with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour. Surface roadworthy improvements spanning 1,350 metres were besides carried retired to nexus postulation from Al Khail Road to Meydan Street.
Jumeirah Village Circle: A 700-metre span with 2 lanes was constructed, betwixt Hessa Street and Al Khamila Street, connecting postulation from Al Khail Road to Hessa Street, with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour. Surface roadworthy improvements implicit 900 metres were carried retired to link postulation from Jumeirah Village Circle to Al Khail Road towards Deira.

Al Jaddaf: Surface enlargement works were conducted connected Al Khail Road successful Al Jaddaf by adding a caller lane implicit 600 metres to amended postulation travel towards Deira, expanding the road's capableness betwixt the intersections of Oud Metha Street and Financial Centre Street by astir 2,000 vehicles per hour.

Business Bay: A aboveground widening of Al Khail Road astatine the entranceway to Business Bay by adding an other 435-metre lane to guarantee smoother travel to Business Bay country from Al Khail Road and measurement up the postulation information of that assemblage of the roadworthy successful the absorption of Jebel Ali.

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