Key Dubai-Sharjah road project to open today

Sharjah - One of the five main linkages between Dubai and Sharjah.

Traffic congestion on the road between Dubai and northern emirates and back is soon to be history after the complete opening of the Al Badea Bridge in the emirate of Sharjah on Wednesday.
The mega project, worth Dh200 million, has been developed by the ministry of infrastructure in collaboration with federal and local entities concerned to boost the roads network in the country and boost economic boom.
Informed sources told Khaleej Times that the interchange connecting the Emirates road and Sharjah-Maleha highways is one of the five crossways between the emirates of Sharjah and Dubai.
"The high capacity of the 12-lane road is expected to significantly ease daily snarls and boost traffic flow."
Eng Ahmed Al Hammadi, the manager of roads department at the ministry, earlier told Khaleej Times that the key project is to increase the capacity of the road by twice as much as before to reach 17,700 vehicles per hour.
"The project will significantly raise the capacity of the sliding road three times to reach 2,500 vehicles per hour."
The construction of a three-lane road over a distance of two kilometers in Dubai will also boost the capacity of the road to 6,000 vehicles per hour, he disclosed.
"This will put an end to the problem of the road being congested with trucks, let alone the construction of a three-lane bridge towards Sharjah with a capacity of 6,000 vehicles to end the problem of the sliding road."
The bridge will also reduce the trip time and ease the traffic congestions for those heading from Dubai to Sharjah and northern emirates in the evening, he underlined.
"The slow movement of the trucks on the road in the direction Dubai to Sharjah affects its traffic flow and its capacity which is only 800 vehicles per hour, but this will be history with the new bridge."
ahmedshaaban@khaleejtimes.com

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