MBR City Al Asayel and Al Mustaqbal, the roads into MBR City, get higher limits on 1 November
The two streets that connect Al Meydan Street, the northern edge of Mohammed Bin Rashid City, to Business Bay and Downtown change their speed limits on 1 November 2026. The revision, announced by the RTA with Dubai Police, covers five roads in all.
The two that touch the district
Al Asayel Street, Oud Metha Street to Al Meydan Street: 60 to 80 km/h. Al Mustaqbal Street, Sheikh Rashid Road to Al Meydan Street: 60 to 70 km/h.
The other three
Latifa bint Hamdan Street, Sheikh Zayed Road to Al Khail Road: 60 to 70. Al Rebat Street: 100 down to 90. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah Street: 80 down to 70.
Why
The RTA says each change follows a study of traffic volume and road design on the stretch concerned; the two increases towards MBR City are on roads that were rebuilt wider than their limits implied.
Read this next to the Al Meydan Street rebuild. The district's problem has never been the speed of the approach roads but the junctions where they meet Al Meydan Street, which still runs at signals. Raising Al Asayel to eighty shortens the approach by seconds and lengthens the queue at the light by the same amount until the interchange is built. The limit that will change the district's commute is the one on Al Meydan Street after the rebuild, and that one has not been announced.
Source: Roads and Transport Authority checked against the source
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