Salik Gates to Begin Operation Tomorrow at Business Bay Crossing and South Al Safa

Starting time (Sunday), Salik, Dubai's toll gross system, volition activate 2 caller toll gates: 1 astatine the Business Bay Crossing and different astatine the South Al Safa Gate connected Sheikh Zayed Road. This follows the completion of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) task to heighten Al Khail Road, with the gates having been installed successful August this year.

The RTA emphasized that the motorboat of these toll gates aligns with its broad strategical program to make an integrated web of roads, nationalist transportation, and astute mobility systems. The inaugural aims to trim dependence connected backstage vehicles and promote the usage of nationalist transportation.

The determination to instrumentality these gates is portion of the authority’s efforts to amended postulation travel crossed Dubai’s roadworthy network. It seeks to redistribute postulation by directing it to alternate routes, specified arsenic Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, Dubai-Al Ain Road, Ras Al Khor Road, and Al Manama Road, portion besides promoting the usage of alternate creek crossings similar the Infinity Bridge and the Shindagha Tunnel. This measurement encourages residents and visitors to utilize little congested roads and routes.

According to studies and recommendations by planetary consultants, installing a gross astatine Business Bay Crossing and a regulatory gross astatine South Al Safa was necessary. The South Al Safa Gate, situated betwixt Meydan and Umm Suqeim streets connected Sheikh Zayed Road, volition let a azygous toll outgo for vehicles passing done some Al Safa gates (north and south) wrong an hour. This attack aims to support postulation work levels, accommodate postulation volumes, and power congestion crossed the roadworthy web and intersections.

The Business Bay Crossing gross is expected to importantly interaction postulation flow. It volition redirect vehicles from Jebel Ali to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road and Emirates Road, reducing postulation connected Al Khail Road by astir 2,053 vehicles per hr (15%), connected Rabat Street by 1,218 vehicles per hr (16%), and connected Financial Centre Road by astir 5%. Additionally, it volition alteration wide question clip connected the congested conception of Al Khail Road betwixt Rabat Street and Ras Al Khor Road by 20,000 hours regular successful some directions.

Similarly, the operational South Al Safa Gate volition trim postulation turning close from Sheikh Zayed Road to Meydan Street by 15%, portion lowering postulation volumes from Meydan and Al Safa streets onto Sheikh Zayed Road by astir 1,070 vehicles per hr (42%). It volition besides alteration congestion connected Sheikh Zayed Road betwixt Financial Centre Road and Latifa bint Hamdan Street by 4%, portion optimizing the usage of Al Khail First Road and Al Asayel Street by up to 4%.

The RTA reiterated that toll gates are a cardinal constituent of Dubai’s transport strategy, supporting the improvement of roadworthy infrastructure and nationalist proscription systems. They play a captious relation successful redistributing postulation crossed the network, ensuring amended utilization of roadworthy corridors, and encouraging the usage of nationalist transport, including the metro, buses, marine transport, and different flexible mobility solutions.

The authorization highlighted the effectiveness of existing toll gates, noting that they person reduced the full yearly question clip successful Dubai by astir six cardinal hours, decreased postulation connected Al Maktoum and Al Garhoud bridges by 26%, and chopped question clip connected Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Ittihad Road by 24%. Additionally, the toll strategy has led to a nine-million-passenger yearly summation successful nationalist proscription usage.

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