Dubai Canal: Al Wasl Road diversions 'soon'

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that it is about to complete works under Phase I of the main traffic diversion on Al Wasl Road near Safa Park, needed as part of preparations for starting Phase II of the Dubai Water Canal Project.

In a media statement on Sunday, the RTA said that the diversion is expected to be fully opened by the end of October this year. The diversion extends about half a kilometre and maintains the same number of the existing lanes in order to avoid any negative effect on the traffic movement, the RTA noted.

“Works are up and running in the Dubai Water Canal project and progressing according to the timeline set,” said Maitha bin Udai, CEO of RTA’s Traffic and Roads Agency. “The project works dictated diverting the traffic on Al Wasl Road; including diverting the traffic flow from and to Abu Dhabi to the traffic diversion underway while maintaining the same number of lanes. The new traffic diversion will be fitted with all the required traffic safety means such as signals, cautionary lights on the street and concrete barriers,” she said.

“Work has started on laying utility line conduits underneath the path of the proposed Canal (mainland side) while protecting and diverting utility lines underneath the traffic diversion path. Concurrently with these diversions, construction works will start on the bridge on Al Wasl Road in the direction of Abu Dhabi, once the traffic movement is routed directly through the traffic diversion,” she added.

Water Canal project is divided into three phases; the initial phase includes construction of bridges across the Water Canal on the Sheikh Zayed Road sector where eight-lane bridges rising 8 metres above the water level will be constructed in each direction, thus enabling free marine navigation in the canal round the clock, besides carrying out a number of improvements on the main road network intersecting the course of the Canal.

The second phase includes the construction of bridges across the Water Canal on the Jumeirah and Al Wasl Roads, comprising three lanes on the Jumeirah Road and two lanes on Al Wasl Road in each direction, in addition to a ramp from Al Wasl Road to Al Hadiqa Road in the direction of the Sheikh Zayed Road.

The third phase includes digging a 3.2-km-long canal, filling works to create an island on the beach side, constructing a marine wall around the island to prepare a sand beach, building marina for yachts and the Water Bus, and constructing three eye-catching footbridges.
 

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