A new two-lane tunnel linking the Airport Street and Marrakech Street is set to open on Friday, July 20, the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced.
It is part of the Improvement of Airport-Marrakech Streets Junction Project and aims to ease the traffic flow in Umm Ramool which is a densely populated district with several schools, and public and private offices.
Nabeel Mohammed Salih, Director of Roads at the RTA’s Traffic and Roads Agency, explained that the project includes the construction of two bridges on the Airport Street of three lanes in each direction, and a ramp branching out of a downtown-bound bridge leading to Dubai International Airport Terminal 3, thus bypassing the light signal.
Another bridge leading to the premises of the Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects will cut traffic queues at the junction from seven minutes to less than a minute, reported WAM.
RTA had opened all bridges of the four junctions of the Airport Street over several phases.
