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new Infinity Bridge and Al Shindagha Tunnel to ease traffic on other key
routes.
Why is RTA installing new Salik gates?

Cars pass through an electronic toll gate on a highway in Dubai, February
4, 2012. (File photo: Reuters)
“This measure is intended to maintain traffic service levels, accommodate
traffic volumes, and control congestion on the road network and at
intersections,” director-general of the RTA Mattar al-Tayer said.

Key Dubai highways feature toll gates that seamlessly read registered
number plates or chips and deduct $1.09 (AED 4) every time a vehicle
passes through the gate.

The Business Bay Crossing gate will reportedly reroute traffic from Jebel
Ali towards Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and Emirates Road.

RTA expects this diversion to reduce traffic on Al Khail Road by 15
percent to 2,053 vehicles per hour, reduce the traffic on Al Rebat Street
by 16 percent to 1,218 vehicles per hour and decrease the usually
packed Financial Centre Street by about 5 percent - cutting down the total
travel time on the congested section of Al Khail Road between Al Rebat

Street and Ras Al Khor Road by about 20,000 hours daily in both
directions.

The Al Safa South Gate is expected to reduce traffic turning right from
Sheikh Zayed Road to Al Meydan Street by 15 percent. RTA also
believes that it will trim traffic flow from Al Meydan and Al Safa Streets to
Sheikh Zayed Road by 42 percent - 1,070 vehicles per hour.

RTA also said that it will help decrease the traffic volume on Sheikh

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/01/19/Dubai-RTA-to-install-one-of-two-new-Salik-toll-
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