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Dubai: New Salik gates on the anvil to manage

increasing traffic?

Eight toll gates are installed across the city’s major corridors, especially Sheikh Zayed
Road, recording 293 million trips in the first half of this year

Waheed Abbas, Khaleej Times

November 8, 2023

There is a need for new Salik gates from a traffic management perspective as the toll gates play a
major role in the management of the city’s traffic, Ibrahim Al Haddad, CEO of Salik Company, told
Khaleej Times in an interview on Tuesday.

However, he stressed that the decision to install new toll gates rests with the Roads and Transport
Authority (RTA), Dubai, and depends upon the approval of the Executive Council of Dubai.

Toll gates were introduced by the RTA in 2007 as part of a traffic management plan as well as to
increase new sources of revenue for the government. Eight toll gates are installed across the city’s
major corridors, especially Sheikh Zayed Road, recording 293 million trips in the first half of this year,

an increase of 9.8 per cent during the January-June 2022 period. Each trip through the toll gate costs
four dirhams.

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