Dubai: How Infinity Bridge has helped beat traffic, slash travel time

Bridge has helped reduce down journey length to 13 minutes within the morning.

The lately opened Infinity Bridge is far more than an architectural marvel. It’s serving to motorists save time, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) calculations have proven.

Based on the RTA, the infinity symbol-shaped bridge over the Dubai Creek has helped reduce down journey length to 13 minutes within the morning from Al Mamzar Intersection to the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed St intersection (subsequent to Zabeel Park). That is an enchancment charge of 73 per cent.

The journey length has reached 22 minutes at evening in the other way – an enchancment charge of 63 per cent, the authority added.

Infinity Bridge opened to visitors for the primary time on Sunday, January 16. The bridge improves the hyperlink between Deira and Bur Dubai by rising the overall variety of lanes crossing Dubai Creek from 48 to 60. It incorporates a mixed 3-metre observe for pedestrians and cyclists.

First introduced in 2018, the Infinity Bridge is a part of the Dh5.3-billion Al Shindagha Hall Undertaking. Consisting of six lanes in every path, the bridge has an arch formed just like the infinity image – which symbolises Dubai’s limitless ambitions.