The 13 lane
Business Bay Crossing (also known as the Ras Al Khor Bridge) is one of the most
recent bridges across Dubai Creek and was opened to traffic in June 2007. Six
lanes travel from Deira to Bur Dubai while seven go from Bur Dubai to Deira.
The
Business Bay Crossing is located some 1.5 km South of Al Garhoud Bridge near Dubai Festival
City and provides a new
road corridor to motorists travelling between Bur Dubai and Deira and to
Sharjah, in addition to Emirates
Road and Sheikh
Zayed Road.
The bridge
cost 800 million dirhams and has a capacity of 26,000 vehicles per hour. The
bridge is 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) long, and has a maritime channel with a
width of 60 metres (196.850 ft) and a height of 15 metres (49.212 ft).
The bridge
was built by Besix, a company which made some major bridges in Dubai