New Flyover In Dubai Is Connecting Two Key Roads Opens

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has opened a flyover that connects the Ras Al Khor and Nad Al Hamar roads.

The new bridge is part of Phase II of the Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Corridor Improvement Project, which extends from the intersection of the Ras Al Khor-Nad Al Hamar roads to that of the Ras Al Khor-Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed roads.

On completion, the project will enhance the capacity of the Ras Al Khor Road to 10,000 vehicles per hour, slash the travel time from 20 minutes to about 7 and boost traffic safety and flow.

Construction includes bridges and underpasses that span 1,471 metres, which will ramp up the road capacity to 30,000 vehicles per hour.

Mattar Al Tayer, director-general and chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, RTA, said the two phases of the project involve widening the Ras Al Khor Road over a sector extending 8km from the intersection, with the Dubai-Al Ain Road, up to the one with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Road – as well as constructing bridges spanning 2km, along with a service road on both sides.

“The project serves many major development projects inhabited by 650,000 residents, including The Lagoons, Dubai Creek, Meydan Horizon, Ras Al Khor, Al Wasl, and Nad Al Hamar Complex. In the future, the project’s scope will cover the construction of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Crossing, which crosses over the Dubai Creek and links Al Jaddaf in Bur Dubai with the road separating Dubai Creek Project and Dubai Festival City,” added Al Tayer.