{"id":7428,"date":"2023-05-29T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T08:55:55","slug":"al-ittihad-road-added-600-meter-lane-dubai-sharjah-traffic-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/?p=7428","title":{"rendered":"Al- Ittihad Road added 600 meter lane, Dubai-Sharjah traffic ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Sharjah<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sharjah&#8217;s Roads and Transport Authority (SRTA) has announced the completion of a traffic improvement project on Al -Ittihad Road. This will boost capacity for Dubai to Sharjah commuters and ease traffic on the arterial road.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The authority has added an additional 600-metre lane, seamlessly connected to the Khulafa Al Rashideen Bridge. According to a video posted by the authority, an extra lane has been added to take the exit towards Al Khan.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Commuters have welcomed the completion of the project. They said the road extension near Safeer Mall has eased some pressure on traffic heading towards Al Majaz, Corniche and Rolla areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000; font-family: andale mono, monospace;\">The SRTA said the authority has implemented modifications to the service road pavements and included parking spaces. \u201cThese traffic improvement endeavours were undertaken to address the infrastructure requirements of road users,\u201d the SRTA said in an Instagram post.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Al Ittihad Road is a key highway that connects Sharjah and Dubai. The highway sees traffic build up during peak hours.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In December 2019, the UAE\u2019s Ministry of Infrastructure Development had announced a Dh230-million project to boost traffic flow on the road. As part of this project, the ministry had said it would develop Al Nahda and Khulafa Al Rashideen intersections; and increase the capacity of the road by 3,000 vehicles per hour in each direction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharjah Sharjah&#8217;s Roads and Transport Authority (SRTA) has announced the completion of a traffic improvement project on Al -Ittihad Road. This will boost capacity for Dubai to Sharjah commuters and ease traffic on the arterial road. The authority has added an additional 600-metre lane, seamlessly connected to the Khulafa Al Rashideen Bridge. According to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,143,125,91],"tags":[310,311,312],"class_list":["post-7428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-infrastructure","category-sharjah","category-emirates","tag-al-ittihad-road","tag-traffic-ease","tag-uaes-ministry-of-infrastructure-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7430,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions\/7430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pardaisnewsdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}