Floating Bridge (Dubai) | road bridge

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Floating Bridge (Arabic: الجسر العائم‎) is a pontoon bridge (floating bridge) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It connects Riyadh Road, Dubai Courts and Creek Park on the Bur Dubai side with Baniyas Road, Deira City Centre and the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club on the Deira side. Floating Bridge is the fifth crossing on Dubai Creek. The others are Al Shindagha Tunnel, Al Maktoum Bridge, Al Garhoud Bridge and Business Bay Crossing. The bridge, which cost 155 million dirhams to build and has a capacity of 6,000 vehicles an hour, was opened on 16 July 2007 with much fanfare. Opening only two weeks after the implementation of Salik, people were glad to have a fourth free crossing across Dubai Creek.

Replacement

The floating bridge is a temporary crossing that will be replaced by a new bridge called "Dubai Smile" by 2010.

The Global Financial Crisis has meant that the plans to build this bridge was postponed and the Floating Bridge is still in use.According to a 2009 Gulfnews article the new date for a replacement is 2014. gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/traffic-transport/floating-b...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Bridge,_Dubai
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Coordinates:   25°14'56"N   55°19'33"E

Comments

  • no photo?
  • finished after 300 days, opens at 6am to 10pm @ friday 9am to 10pm
  • Some dangerous drunk fillipino crashed his car after 10 pm,,, and went in water... according to gulfnews lol
  • 4 AED Fee of Road charge ( ُسالک)
  • will be replaced by "dubai smile" bridge in 2010
  • Photo placed By Sangeeths
  • جسر رائع بمعنى الكلمة
  • its 2010 now so its now dubai smile so we need to change the name to dubai smile because its 2010 now
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