New bridge on Academic City Road

Road and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a contract for constructing Phase II of the Academic City Road Project, which will include four lanes in each direction extending 25km.

The new road, which costs about Dh474 million, extends from Dubai – Al Ain Interchange up to Al Yalayis Road, and is expected to be completed in the last quarter of 2017, said Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA.

The project includes construction of a road with four lanes in each direction extending 25km starting from the Dubai–Al Ain Interchange up to Al Yalayis Road; the construction of a bridge at the intersection of the Academic City Road with Latifa bint Hamdan Road near the entrance of the Global Village for the traffic inbound from Emirates Roads along with a signalised intersection at-grade underneath the bridge.

There will also be a new temporary roundabout at the intersection with Al Qudra Road, and another signalised intersection at-grade with Hessa Road.

Phase I

“RTA, in coordination with Dubai Prosperities Group, has recently started the construction of Phase I of Improvement of the Extension of the Academic City Road Project costing about Dh67 million, which is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2016," said Al Tayer.

Phase I of the project has two sections. The first encompasses the improvement of Hessa Road extension covering a 4 km-long sector of two lanes in each direction from the entry of Ramram Project up to the existing R/A at the entry of the Dubai Sport City.

The R/A will be converted into a signalised junction to ease the traffic movement of residents from and to the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road. The project will cut short the journey time from 20 to 5 minutes, and serve a plethora of development projects in the neighbourhood such as the Dubai Studio City, Mudon, Akoya and Dubai Golf City.

The other section of the project covers improvement of the road linking the extension of the Academic City Road with the Emirates Road to serve The Villa project in a 2.5 km-long sector of two lanes in each direction.

The new Academic City Road will terminate by linking with Al Yalayis Road, which has recently been completed by RTA, linking the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road (at Al Houdh R/A) with the Emirates Road via the Dubai Investment Park (DIP) in a sector stretching 9km and comprising four lanes in each direction.

Entry and exit points had been provided for the DIP as well as Jumeirah Golf Estates through signalised R/As that are convertible at a later stage into flyovers. Al Yalayis Road also includes a bridge crossing Emirates Road providing unimpeded traffic movement for vehicles inbound from Jebel Ali Area heading towards Sharjah.

"Al Yalyais Road constitutes an additional traffic corridor linking the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road and the Emirates Road running parallel to Jebel Ali-Lehbab Road.

"The project will thus play a principal role in diverting a huge portion of traffic movement, especially trucks, from the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road to the Emirates Road. The road is expected to be used by about 55,000 vehicles per day, and will have a capacity to handle 6,000 vehicles an hour per direction," explained Al Tayer.

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