(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Three new bridges will be opened on Dubai's Airport Streetnext Friday(April 27), which will considerably ease traffic towards the Dubai International Airport, it was announcedon Saturday. Once these bridges are opened, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will have opened all the bridges on the arterial street.
A two-lane tunnel will be opened to serve the traffic inbound from the Airport Street heading towards Marrakech Street in July this year.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, said: "Bridges to be opened include a two-lane bridge to serve the traffic from Nad Al Hamar Street to the Airport Street. This bridge will ease the snarls resulting from the overlapping traffic at Nad Al Hamar Interchange between the first circular slope heading leftward from Nad Al Hamar to the Airport Street, and the second circular slope heading leftward from the Airport Street to Nad Al Hamar Street.
"The traffic on the first circular slope will be limited to U-turns in the direction of Nad Al Hamar Street."
Upgrading the Marrakech-Aiport Streets Junction includes the opening of a ramp leading to Terminal 3 of the Dubai International Airport that enables motorists access to the building without waiting at the junction.
The RTA will also open the bridge leading to the premises of the Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects (previous location of the Dubai Airshow).
"The opening of all bridges at the four junctions of the Airport Street increases the intake of the Airport Street by 5,000 vehicles per hour. It would also step up the traffic safety and flow. The Project is needed to keep up with the sharp growth rate in the number of passengers using the Dubai International Airport, which is expected to hit 92 million passengers by 2020," said Al Tayer.
The Airport Improvement Project comprises upgrading four junctions. The first was the Rashidiya junction, which includes the construction of two bridges on the Airport Street of three lanes in each direction. The second includes upgrading the Airport-Nad Al Hamar Streets Junction through constructing a two-lane ramp to serve the traffic from the Nad Al Hamar Street to the Airport Street.
The third junction includes upgrading Marrakech junction through the construction of two bridges of three lanes in each direction along with a ramp leading to Terminal 3 of Dubai International Airport without waiting at the traffic signal. It also includes the construction of another bridge leading to the premises of the Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects and a two-lane underpass to serve the traffic heading leftward from the Airport Street in the direction of Marrakech Street.
The fourth junction covers upgrading Casablanca Street junction through the construction of an additional single-lane ramp to serve the traffic from the Airport Street in the direction of Casablanca Street, thus eliminating the waiting time at the traffic signal. It also includes the construction of an alternative route for traffic inbound from Al Garhoud, enabling direct access to Terminal 1 and 3 of the Dubai International Airport. It will also increase the number of lanes of the Casablanca Street in the direction of Al Garhoud from three to four lanes.
The project reduces the total waiting time at the Casablanca Intersection and eases the tailbacks generated by the overlapping traffic between vehicles heading towards the Casablanca junction and others coming from Terminal 1 heading leftwards to the Casablanca Street.
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