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Now, reach Dubai airport faster with this new tunnel

Dubai - The project will cut the waiting time at the junction from seven minutes to less than one.

A tunnel that links the Airport and Marrakech Streets will open on July 20, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced on Monday. The tunnel will ease traffic in Umm Ramool, a densely populated district with several schools as well as public and private entities.
The tunnel is part of the improvement of Airport-Marrakech Streets junction project. It included the construction of two bridges of three lanes in each direction on the Airport Street, and a ramp branching out of Downtown-bound bridge leading to the Dubai International Airport Terminal 3.
"The project will cut the waiting time at the junction from seven minutes to less than one," said Nabeel Mohammed Salih, director of roads at the RTA's traffic and roads agency.
Over several phases, the RTA had opened all bridges of the four junctions of the Airport Street. The first, Al Rashidiya Junction, included the construction of two bridges of three lanes in each direction on the Airport Street. The second was the Airport-Nad Al Hamar Streets Junction involving the construction of a two-lane ramp to serve the traffic from the Nad Al Hamar Street to Airport Street.
"The third was the Marrakech-Airport Streets' junction comprising the construction of two bridges of three lanes in each direction along with a ramp leading to the Airport Terminal 3 without waiting at the light signal. It also included the construction of another bridge leading to the premises of the Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects and a two-lane underpass to serve the traffic heading leftward from the Airport Street in the direction of Marrakech Street," added Salih.
The fourth junction covered upgrading the Airport-Casablanca Streets junction through the construction of an additional single-lane ramp to serve the traffic from the Airport Street heading to Casablanca Street. It also included the construction of an alternative street for traffic inbound from Al Garhoud, enabling direct access to Terminals 1 and 3 of the airport, besides increasing the number of lanes of Casablanca Street in the direction of Al Garhoud from three to four lanes.
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