Dubai RTA opens main bridge at Expo Road intersection
DUBAI, February 16, 2019
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has today (February 16) opened a main bridge at the intersection of Expo Road and Al Asayel Street.
The bridge is a part of Phase Five of the roads network leading to Expo site. The completion rate of this phase has exceeded 50 per cent, and construction will complete this June.
"RTA has partially opened three lanes in each direction of the bridge on Expo Road. This phase includes the construction of bridges extending 2.6 km and roads spanning about 3 km. Expo Road will be widened to six lanes in each direction over a 3-km sector," remarked Mattar Al Tayer, director-general and chairman of the board of executive directors of the RTA.
"Two service roads will be added to ease the present traffic condition," he stated, during a recent inspection tour of work progress in Phase One and Five of the Project.
"Expo Road will be elevated at the intersection with Al Asayel Street with a bridge of six lanes in each direction extending 800 m. Two other bridges will be constructed to link Expo Road with the service road extending one kilometre to ensure smooth traffic flow from and to Expo site," he explained.
"This phase also covers improvement of Al Asayel Street through the construction of a signalised surface junction at the intersection of Expo and Al Asayel Streets to ensure entry and exit from Expo Road to Jebel Industrial Area and Jafza," he added.
Al Tayer was speaking after attending a briefing about the progress of works of Phase One of the project from Maitha bin Adai, CEO of Traffic and Roads Agency.
According to him, the completion rate has reached 43 per cent on this phase, which includes converting the existing roundabout at the intersection on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road with Expo Road to a flyover offering free traffic flow in all directions.
Expo Road will be elevated and widened through the construction of two bridges, each of six lanes in each direction.
These improvements will provide free turns and links, thus ensuring smooth traffic flow from Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Road in both directions, and from Expo Road to Sheikh Zayed Road, said the statement from RTA.
Works will also ease the traffic movement inbound from Expo Northwards to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road in the direction of Dubai, and from the Expo Road Southwards to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road in the direction of Abu Dhabi, it stated.
Phase One of the project also includes road works extending 27 km on Expo Road and widening it from four to six lanes in each direction, besides constructing service roads in both directions.
Works include the construction of four bridges to enable traffic movement from and to Expo Road and Expo site.
To complete the remaining bridgeworks under Phase One, RTA had recently opened a traffic diversion at the intersection of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Road with the Expo Road; which has eased the traffic movement heading to Expo site.-TradeArabia News Service
