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Falcon Junction ... part of the Dh5.35-billion Al Shindagha Roads Corridor Improvement Project.

RTA awards $122m roads upgradation contract

01 April 2020

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a contract worth Dh450 million ($122.4 million) for the upgradation of the Falcon Junction, in a bid to improve the Al Shindagha Roads Corridor to cope with the sustained urbanisation of the locality.

The Falcon Junction work is a part of the Dh5.35-billion Al Shindagha Roads Corridor Improvement Project undertaken over five phases extending 13 km along the Sheikh Rashid, Al Mina, Al Khaleej and Cairo Streets, said RTA.

Upon completion, the Falcon Junction, which borders Al Khaleej, Khaled bin Al Waleed and Al Ghubaiba streets, will link with Shindagha Bridge northwards, it stated.

Due to the massive scope of the Al Shindagha Corridor Project, it has been split into five phases, two of which have been completed.

On the project, Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, the Director-General and Chairman of the board of executive directors of the RTA, said: “Upgrading the Falcon Junction will ensure free traffic movement across Al Shindagha Corridor (Al Khaleej and Al Mina Streets), and step up the intake of both streets. It will also enhance traffic safety, provide entry/exit points for Rashid Port, as well as more parking spaces under the new bridge to serve the area.”

“The project includes the construction of two bridges along Al Khaleej Street, comprising six lanes in each direction with a capacity of 12,000 vehicles per hour, per direction. The first bridge extends 750 m, northwards, and the second, stretches 1,075 m southwards, ” noted Al Tayer.

Works completed included the upgrade of the Sheikh Rashid-Oud Metha streets junction (Wafi Junction), and the intersection of the Sheikh Rashid-Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Streets, which included the construction of two bridges on the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Street with two lanes in each direction. It also included the construction of a single-lane bridge from Zabeel Street towards Sheikh Rashid Street, and a tunnel on the Sheikh Rashid Street extending towards Al Mankhool Junction and comprising four lanes in each direction.