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How RTA Dubai plans to make roads safer
The RTA recommended chalking out a plan for quick traffic solutions and another plan for improving the traffic safety level on Dubai roads.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is planning to make about 89 amendments and improvements to different roads and junctions in Dubai. The action has been taken based on a study prepared by the RTA.
The study showed that a total of 29 sites suffered from traffic jams regularly, while 60 other sites experienced frequent vehicular accidents. The RTA recommended chalking out a plan for quick traffic solutions and another plan for improving the traffic safety level on Dubai roads.
It has been revealed that the most common forms of accidents are smashing into still objects like traffic signs placed on the roadside or on the road; run-over accidents; jumping red lights, and speeding.
Based on the above mentioned reasons, the RTA suggested modifications to some 60 sites. It also suggested making improvements to enhance the visibility on roads, streamlining the vehicular traffic flow at junctions, protecting the RTA's road-related objects and signs, making modification to the way traffic signals are operating, and installation of radars to detect vehicles that jump the red light.
The RTA also suggested some sites where pedestrian crossings can be made, measures can be taken to prevent jaywalking, and suggested other sites where speed radars can be fixed to monitor speedsters and catch them.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA, said that the study indicated and featured frequent traffic accidents at some major roads and pivotal junctions at different areas in Dubai such as Al Ittihad Road close to the borders with both Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.
"That prompted the RTA to install additional warning signboards, remarking the lane for more clarity," Al Tayer added.
The RTA, he said, is currently mulling over how viable reducing speed limits will be at both areas, the Dubai-Abu Dhabi borders and Dubai-Sharjah borders, which would ensure boosting traffic safety on the highway.
According to the study, Al Tayer said the World Trade Centre roundabout is famous for frequent traffic accidents. That made the authority to add more exit lanes, increase the number of guiding signboards, remarking the lanes in the roundabout. The RTA has also fixed the speed limit at Umm Suqeim and Al Qudra Street crossroad (junction) at 80km/h following recurrent vehicular accident there, he pointed out.
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