The headline numbers here are throughput and speed. Oud Metha Road goes from 10,400 to 15,600 vehicles an hour in both directions, a 50 percent capacity increase, and the RTA's peak travel time figure for the corridor drops from 20 minutes to 5. Those come from the Roads and Transport Authority's own confirmation on 20 September 2026, marking full completion of the Oud Metha Road and Al Asayel Street project.
The build itself: 4 intersections reworked, 4 bridges and 2 tunnels totaling 4,300 meters, and 14 kilometers of road works, all inside the larger Sheikh Rashid Corridor programme. Each junction has its own rated capacity, which is unusually granular data for a road announcement. For example, Oud Metha Road at Al Asayel Street got two bridges rated at 2,400 and 3,600 vehicles an hour, and Za'abeel Palace Street got a lane upgrade that takes one movement from 900 to 1,800 vehicles an hour plus a 1,200 capacity tunnel.
For anyone tracking Dubai's property market programmatically, this is the kind of infrastructure event worth logging against rent and price series by district. The RTA is projecting a catchment population above 420,000 by 2030 across Za'abeel, Al Jaddaf, Oud Metha and Umm Hurair, which gives you a denominator if you want to model demand per capita once the transit-time change filters into rents.
Full project detail and area level rent and price data: Doment.
Originally published on Doment, Dubai property intelligence.
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