“Dubai Roads” opens a tunnel with a length of 800 meters with a capacity of 4 tracks in each direction on Umm Saqim Street

The Roads and Transport Authority opened a tunnel with a length of 800 meters, with a capacity of four tracks in each direction, within the project of developing Umm Suqeim Street, which extends from its intersection with Al -Khail Street to its intersection with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Street, which comes within the framework of the authority’s efforts to develop the infrastructure of the road network, to keep pace with the continuous development, which is witnessed in the Emirate of Dubai, and to absorb the needs of urban development and population growth, enhance the smooth flow of traffic, and serves the project, and serves the project Many residential and developmental areas are estimated at more than a million people.

His Excellency Matar Al -Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority, said: With a light signal. “

His Excellency Matar Al -Tayer stressed that the completed project is part of a comprehensive plan to develop the Umm Suqeim axis – the ability, which extends from its intersection with Jumeirah Street, until its intersection with the Emirates Street, with a total length of 16 km, and this axis is one of the most important strategic projects to develop the axes of cross roads (east – west), to enhance the connection with vertical roads (north -south), and its implementation comes as a continuation of the authority’s efforts in developing this axis, Pointing out that the project contributes to enhancing the link between four strategic axes in the Emirate of Dubai, namely: Sheikh Zayed Street, Al Khail Street, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Street and Emirates Street, increasing the capacity of the street to reach 16,000 vehicles per hour in both directions, achieving the smooth flow of traffic, and reducing the trip time in the part that extends between Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and horses, by 61% where it decreases from 9.7 minutes to 3.8 minutes, and serves many Among the residential and developmental areas, the most important of which are Al -Barsha regions, the first, second and third south, Dubai Hills, Arjan, and Dubai Science Complex, and its population is estimated at more than a million people.

Smart technologies

His Excellency the Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors explained that the authority used in the project of developing Umm Suqeim Street the latest smart technologies in following up the road projects in the emirate, where (the drone) was used to analyze data for the progress of work in the project, by employing artificial intelligence to follow up on the progress of the work, and this technology contributed to raising the efficiency of operations in construction sites and the speed of decisions, and providing direct information and with high accuracy, and raising the level of field attendance by 100%, And reducing the time taken for field surveys by 60%, and the technique of filming the time separation (Time Bus) was used to follow up on the progress of work in construction sites around the clock, and its use contributed to raising the efficiency of the follow -up by 40%.

Completed projects

It should be noted that the Roads and Transport Authority, in 2013, completed the first phase of the project to develop Umm Suqeim Street, in the part between Sheikh Zayed Street and Al -Khail Street, and included the implementation of two bridges with a capacity of three tracks in each direction, the first cuts off the eastern street parallel to Al -Asayel Street, and the second cuts the western street parallel to the first horse street, in addition to establishing two intersections with light signals at the intersections of Umm Suqeim Street with Al -Asayel Street and the first horse Street, as The implementation of three infantry bridges on Umm Suqeim Street included to facilitate the transit of pedestrians between the Al -Quoz and Al -Barasa regions, and in 2020, the authority opened within the bridges and roads project for (Dubai Hills Mall), a major bridge along Umm Suqeim Street at its intersection with the entrance to the Dubai Hills and Barasa regions, south, with a length of 500 meters, with a capacity of four tracks in each direction, and a capacity of 16 thousand vehicles per hour per hour The two directions.