Dubai history made: The Canal is open
The part of Dubai that runs from Habtoor City to Bur Dubai is now an island and the Dubai Canal is now officially open…
Two weeks ago water was released into the Dubai Canal, then the waterfall along the highway starting flowing and on Wednesday night the nine kilometre-long waterway was officially opened with a fireworks display along Sheikh Zayed Road.
The boardwalk and two of the pedestrian overbridges from Business Bay to Jumeirah are now open. Want to visit? Drive towards the W Hotel and there’s RTA parking right there. In fact, there are now 1,602 RTA parking spots along the Canal.
While we don’t yet know what parts of the walkway around the Canal will be open yet, we’ll let you know as soon as we know. What we do know is that the nine new marine transport stations in the waterway are now open. In fact, dignitaries were already out on the new ferry on Wednesday night.
When the entire project is finished we’ll get a new Jumeirah Beach Park, a mall with a park on top of it, a 7km running track and apartments that look over Safa Park.
This month all of the major roads and pedestrian bridges will open along the Canal (however it will then take a while for the residences, restaurants and hotels etc to be built and opened).
In fact, both of the bridges over Sheikh Zayed Road are complete and open, both the the Al Wasl Road and Jumeirah Beach Road bridges are finished, and the pedestrian bridges over the canal near Safa Park look to be almost finished.
There will be three pedestrian bridges that will run along the three-kilometre-long Dubai Water Canal, there will also be running tracks, sitting areas looking over the water, smart lighting (that can be controlled by an app) and lots of greenery.
‘The Walk’ at Dubai Water Canal will connect with the current Jumeirah Beach running track,meaning a 7km-long continuous track for joggers.
The area will also be very safe, due to smart surveillance cameras focused on pedestrians with face-recognition technology.
So will we be able to live, stay and shop along the canal? Of course! Property developments will run along both banks of the canal – with 5,345 residential units planned, as well as 948 hotel rooms.The areas will be called Gate Towers, Jumeirah and Peninsula.
There will be four residential towers linked with Safa Park, as well as 211 residential units right on the water.
In other good news, Jumeirah Beach Park will reopen, and the stretch of beach on the much-loved, currently-closed park will extend by one kilometre as it will run out over the Canal’s peninsula. The peninsula area will also feature 60 marinas, 1,817 residential units, 957 five star hotel rooms and 347 retails outlets and restaurants.
The Gate Towers bridge at the entrance of the canal to the Arabian Gulf will feature a three-level mallthat will be built above the Canal and span 300,000 square metres. The mall will hold 434 retail outlets and restaurants.
The coolest bit? The roof of the mall will be a park – yes, as in greenery, and it will look out over Safa Park.
THE CONSTRUCTION
The huge project was split into three contracts by the RTA:
1) Phase one was made up of the Dhs580 million development of eight lanes of bridge in each direction on Sheikh Zayed Road, and the course for the Canal that will flow under Sheikh Zayed Road. This has been completed.
2) The second phase was the Dhs384 million construction of bridges on Al Wasl Road and Jumeirah Beach Road that will allow yachts of up to 8.5 metres in height to navigate the canal along these roads. It will also include a multi-tier interchange to link traffic movement between Al Wasl, Al Hadiqa and Al Athar Roads.
3) The final phase is the largest – at Dhs802 million – and involves the digging of the Water Canal, and building the sides of the Canal that will link Dubai Creek with the Arabian Gulf from Sheikh Zayed Road, through Al Safa Park and Jumeirah 1. This phase is still active but is almost complete, and it also includes the construction of three pedestrian bridges, four marine transit stations, and a manmade peninsula along Jumeirah Park.
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