Dubai: Traffic around Jebel Ali and Dubai Investment Park (DIP) will improve considerably in November, when expansion work at Al Houdh intersection on Mohammad Bin Zayed Road completes, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced on Saturday.
A major intersection in Jebel Ali that handles traffic coming in from several locations like Jebel Ali industrial areas, DIP and Al Maktoum International Airport, the expansion work will see replacement the signalised roundabout with multiple ramps and bridges.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA said that more than 80 per cent of the work on interchange has been completed and it will be ready by November.
The interchange currently has traffic diversions to facilitate road works, which will be removed by November.
“The project comprises transforming Al Houdh roundabout from a signalised junction to an intersections supported flyovers offering smooth traffic flow in all directions,” said Al Tayer
The Dh227 million upgrade includes construction of four east-west bridges along the stretch of Al Yalayis Road, including three lanes in each direction with a total length of 600 metres.
The project also includes widening the Mohammad Bin Zayed Road from Jebel Ali–Lehbab intersection to the interchange leading to Al Maktoum International Airport from three to six lanes in each direction over a seven kilometre-long sector.
Expansion work on the seven kilometre-long stretch was completed in February and work on another four kilometer stretch from Lehbab interchange to Al Houdh is currently underway and will be ready by November.
Al Tayer said service lanes are also being built along the four-kilometre stretch, set to be opened in November.
Busy with truck and trailer traffic, completion of Al Houdh interchange will improve road safety in the area as well as removing traffic bottlenecks.
Traffic will flow unhindered from Al Yalayis Road to the East in the direction of DIP, and to the West in the direction of the Shaikh Zayed Road and Jebel Ali Free Zone.
It will also ensure smooth north-south traffic flow from Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road to Abu Dhabi and vice versa.
