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11/4/24, 2:32 PM Dubai to activate two new Salik Toll Gates to ease traffic - Emirati Times
These gates have been installed at the Business Bay Crossing on Al Khail
Road and in Al Safa South on Sheikh Zayed Road, located between Al

Meydan Street and Umm Al Sheif Street.

Plans for these additional toll points, which increase Dubai’s Salik gates to a
total of 10, were initially revealed in January.

Authorities have noted that the locations were selected based on extensive
traffic studies aimed at alleviating congestion, with the Salik Company
establishing the gates under the direction of Dubai’s Roads and Transport

Authority.

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Cutting traffic

The authority expects the new Business Bay gate to help reduce traffic
congestion by between 12 per cent to 15 per cent, while the gate in Al Safa

South is set to cut congestion by 15 per cent.

Mr Al Haddad said that, “The addition of new toll gates in two increasingly
busy locations marks the latest milestone in the growth plan that we set out

at the time of Salik’s initial public offering.”

After the January announcement, Mattar Al Tayer, director general of the

RTA, said Dubai’s road toll strategy was key to its efforts to reduce traffic.

Al Tayer said that, “The existing toll gates contributed to reducing the total
travel time in Dubai by six million hours annually, decreasing traffic volumes

on Al Maktoum and Al Garhoud bridges by 26 per cent, reducing travel
times on Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Ittihad Street by 24 per cent, and

increasing the number of mass transit users by nine million riders per
annum.”

Why were tolls introduced?

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