RTA awards AED1.5 billion contract for Al Fay Street Development Project

Al Tayer: Al Fay Street is simply a strategical corridor and an hold of Al Khail Road, connecting Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road to Emirates Road
The task entails the improvement of 5 cardinal intersections, incorporating 13,500 metres of bridges and 12,900 metres of roads
The task increases Al Fay Street’s capableness to accommodate 64,400 vehicles per hour
Al Fay Street serves residential and improvement areas, catering to a colonisation and visitors of 600,000

In enactment with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE,  Ruler of Dubai, to heighten Dubai's roadworthy infrastructure to conscionable ongoing maturation and accommodate projected municipality and colonisation expansion, and nether the follow-up of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded the declaration for the Al Fay Street Development Project.
The task extends from its intersection with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, passes done Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street, and continues to Emirates Road, with a full declaration worth of AED 1.5 billion.

The scope includes the improvement of 5 cardinal intersections, featuring 13,500 metres of bridges and 12,900 metres of roads. Upon completion, the task volition heighten Al Fay Street’s capableness to accommodate 64,400 vehicles per hr and service residential and developmental areas, benefiting an estimated colonisation and visitant basal of 600,000 individuals.

Strategic Corridor
Reflecting connected the value of the project, His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Director General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), stated: "Al Fay Street Development Project is simply a pivotal infrastructure inaugural wrong Dubai’s Road network. It establishes a caller strategical corridor among the emirate's main roads, importantly enhancing east-west connectivity. Al Fay Street acts arsenic an hold of Al Khail Roads, stretching from its intersection with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road to Emirates Road.”

Al Tayer added: "The task volition service a assortment of residential and developmental areas, including Dubai Sports City, Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai Production City, Jumeirah Golf Estates, Tilal Al Ghaf, DAMAC Lagoons, The Oasis, and Remraam. It volition supply seamless and nonstop postulation travel on Al Khail Road towards Emirates Road, facilitate question betwixt Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road and Emirates Road, and guarantee creaseless and harmless mobility for roadworthy users. Furthermore, the task volition heighten postulation capableness and ratio astatine 5 cardinal intersections, cementing Dubai’s presumption arsenic a person successful precocious and sustainable infrastructure."

First Intersection
Al Tayer remarked: "Given the extended scope of the project, which involves the operation of 5 intersections, it has been divided into 2 phases. At the First Intersection, a span volition beryllium constructed astatine the intersection of Al Khail Road and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road. This span volition person 2 lanes, spanning 1,255 metres, with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hr to accommodate left-turn postulation from Deira on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road towards Al Fay Street and Emirates Road.

The task besides includes the enlargement of work roads successful some directions to summation capableness and amended postulation travel astatine the intersection. Additionally, 2 bridges with 2 lanes each, spanning 2,040 metres and a combined capableness of 6,400 vehicles per hr successful some directions, volition beryllium built to facilitate nonstop postulation to and from Jumeirah Village Circle, connecting it with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road."

Second and Third Intersections
Al Tayer explained that the 2nd intersection volition beryllium developed astatine the existent roundabout betwixt Dubai Sports City and Dubai Production City. This includes constructing a span implicit Al Fay Street, spanning 960 metres with 4 lanes successful each absorption and a capableness of 14,400 vehicles per hour, ensuring creaseless postulation travel on Al Fay Street.

The task works besides impact converting the existing roundabout into a signal-controlled aboveground intersection to accommodate postulation volumes to and from Dubai Sports City and Dubai Production City. A grade-separated work road, spanning 780 metres with 2 lanes, volition beryllium built to facilitate postulation question from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road towards Emirates Road, with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour.

In addition, a caller intersection volition beryllium constructed astatine Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street with Al Fay Street. This volition diagnostic a three-lane span successful each direction, spanning 1,400 metres and accommodating 9,600 vehicles per hour. Another five-lane span connected Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street volition besides beryllium built, spanning 1,400 metres, and handling 9,000 vehicles per hour.
The task further includes 2 grade-separated work roads, each with 3 lanes successful each direction, designed to facilitate left-turn movements. These work roads volition span 1,400 metres, with a combined capableness of 9,600 vehicles per hr for some bridges.

Fourth and Fifth Intersections
His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer stated: "At the 4th intersection (Al Fay Street with Emirates Road), a two-lane span volition beryllium constructed to facilitate left-turn postulation from Al Fay Street onto Emirates Road towards Al Awir, Al Khawaneej, Sharjah, and the bluish emirates. This span volition span 1,000 metres and person a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour.

“Additionally, different two-lane span volition beryllium built to accommodate left-turn postulation from Emirates Road onto Al Fay Street heading towards Deira. This span volition span 1,150 metres, besides with a capableness of 3,200 vehicles per hour.

“At the 5th intersection, nonstop entree volition beryllium provided from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road to Dubai Production City via the operation of 2 two-lane bridges, spanning a full of 2,250 metres and offering a combined capableness of 6,400 vehicles per hour. These bridges volition guarantee creaseless and businesslike postulation travel betwixt Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road and Dubai Production City successful some directions."
 

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