The Jewel of the Creek Project will have several hotels and residential towers.
Jewel of the Creek tunnel work complete
01 December 2019
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the completion of tunnel and road works leading to the entry/exit points of Jewel of the Creek project undertaken in collaboration with Dubai International Real Estate.
The Jewel of the Creek Project comprises 19 buildings, including five- four- and three-star hotels, self-service apartments, a mini-mall, offices,20 restaurants, a man-made lake, a waterfront promenade, a marina with 65 berths, and a parking space for about 6,000 vehicles.
RTA said the work has been completed on tunnels extending 1.4 km, and roads stretching 7 km.
The ground and basement access points of the Jewel of the Creek Project have been linked with Baniyas Street to the north, and Al Ittihad Street to the east through streets, tunnels and sloping roads, it added.
Mattar Al Tayer, the director-general and chairman of the board of executive directors of RTA, said: “The project also includes the construction of a footbridge extending 81 m crossing over Baniyas Street to be completed in the first quarter of 2020 together with other works including lighting as well as protecting and relocation of the existing utility lines.”
The northern access points of the project comprise entry points to the basement parking via the tunnel for traffic bound to the west of Baniyas Street and traffic inbound from the sloping road of Al Maktoum Bridge. It also includes exit points for the basement parking through the tunnel heading east and west of Baniyas Street, in addition to exit points to the north-east leading to the eastern sloping road from Al Maktoum Bridge to Baniyas Street.
The eastern access points include surface entry points from and to the basement parking, and single-lane tunnels for the basement parking accessible from Al Ittihad Street beside the Floating Bridge, and from Baniyas Street to the East.
Works also include the construction of roads for the surface entry points for the traffic inbound from Al Ittihad Street to the south, and single-lane tunnels to the east for the parking to provide an exit in the direction of Abu Dhabi and Al Ittihad Street to the north.
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