Dubai Floating Bridge closure on Fridays extended

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Dubai Floating Bridge closure on Fridays extended

Dubai - The closure will offer more time to ships and marine transit modes to navigate through the Dubai Creek.

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Published: Tue 25 Apr 2017, 5:19 PM

Last updated: Tue 25 Apr 2017, 8:50 PM

The Dubai Floating Bridge will continue to be closed from Thursdays, 10 pm until Saturday, 6 am, the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority announced on Monday.

The closure will offer more time to ships and marine transit modes to navigate through the Dubai Creek, especially after the opening of the Dubai Water Canal, which is stimulating the marine traffic in the area.

Engineer Maitha bin Adai, CEO of RTA's Traffic & Roads Agency, said, "The extended duration of the Floating Bridge closure will be matched by a corresponding extension of the free crossing over Al Maktoum Bridge."

"The decision has been taken in the light of specialist and comprehensive traffic studies, which revealed that Al Maktoum Bridge, Al Garhoud Bridge and Al Shandagha Tunnel are capable of accommodating the traffic movement in the area on Fridays where it is significantly less," noted Maitha.


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