Treat the Al Meydan Street announcement as a small dataset. Every figure below comes from the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), so these are the authority's own design ratings and forecasts, not measured outcomes.
The fields
Two contracts, AED 1.161 billion combined, completion at the end of 2028. Headline scope is 17 kilometres of road and 3,700 metres of bridges, with a stated catchment of more than 500,000 residents.
The split by contract:
Contract one is about 14 kilometres. It has 1,600 metres of bridges at the Al Marabea' and Al Meydan interchange (14,400 vehicles an hour), a 3 lane link onto Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road (7,800 vehicles an hour) and a 700 metre elevated link off Dubai to Al Ain Road.
Contract two is roughly 2 kilometres. It has 1,400 metres of bridges at the Muscat Street interchange, also rated at 14,400 vehicles an hour.
The bridge lengths add up: 1,600 plus 700 plus 1,400 is 3,700. The road lengths are given as approximations, so treat the 17 kilometre total loosely.
What you can measure
RTA forecasts an 18 per cent capacity rise on the north to south corridor and a run from Al Manama Street up to Umm Suqeim Street falling from 30 minutes to 10. Those are testable claims. Log real journey times on that route before and after 2028 and you have a baseline and an outcome.
The construction window is the other variable. Anything handed over in 2027 near the two interchanges sits inside it.
Originally published on Doment, Dubai property intelligence.
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