Dubai for Life

Emirates Business 24/7 reports that the RTA in Dubai is planning to spend approximately 44 Billion UAE Dirhams building roads to meet the infrstructure demands in Dubai over the next decade.

The number of residents is predicted to grow from 1.5 million who currently live in the city to more than five million by 2020. And with the emirate’s seemingly intransigent car culture, officials are pulling out all the stops to accommodate the increasing number of vehicles that will hit the roads each year.

Insufficient road capacity contributes to more than half of Dubai’s road congestion and costs the emirate Dh4.6bn annually in economic losses, according to a survey by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). Dubai’s current urban area of 500 sq km will more than quadruple in size to 2,200 sq km by 2020, while the number of registered vehicles is expected to increase from the current 700,000 to 5.3 million; hence, the crushing demand for new roads.

Read the whole story and an overview of proposed projects here