Dubai: A new speed limit on Dubai’s two main highways will force motorists to slow down a notch, and it is going to start soon.
Dubai Police have started to install new signboards on Emirates Road and Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed (MBZ) Road, and are reminding motorists that the speed limit will be dropped from 120 km/h to 110 km/h starting on October 15.
“Lowering the speed limits on the Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed and Emirates roads is a result of elaborate traffic safety studies and analyses of traffic accident data along with their causes over the past years. It resulted in addressing several traffic safety requirements such as pedestrian bridges, safety rails, and truck lay-by areas,” said Maitha Mohammad Bin Adai, chief executive officer of RTA’s Traffic and Roads Agency.
Statistics provided by Dubai Police have also shown that both highways claimed 39 lives each from the beginning of 2016, forcing authorities to revise the speed limits as at least 60 per cent of the accidents are associated with speeding.
