DUBAI — Dubai Municipality has completed the Dh4.5 million wire fencing project at the Ras Al Khor Road and Emirates Road between the 1st and 2nd interchange to prevent pedestrians from endangering their own lives and those of the motorists by crossing the freeway.
The civic body erected the fences on the two roads because of the volume of traffic and the specified speed limit on the highways, which is 120km/hr, and to prevent the pedestrians, especially the residents of the labour camps in Muhaisna-2 from crossing the road to get to Al Qusais.
The studies conducted on the road, which has witnessed a number of accidents, indicated the need of a fence on the locations between the first and second interchanges. The fence at the Emirates Road is 3.5 kilometres long, and 1.8 metres high.