# Business Bay Crossing > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Business_Bay_Crossing > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Business_Bay_Crossing.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Bay_Crossing > Source revision: 1252887698 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Bridge in Dubai Business Bay Crossing معبر الخليج التجاري Coordinates 25°13′35″N 55°20′47″E / 25.226490°N 55.346503°E / 25.226490; 55.346503 Carries Motor vehicles Crosses Dubai Creek Locale Dubai History Constructed by BESIX Construction start 2005 Construction end 2007 Opened June 2007 Statistics Toll Free both ways Location Interactive map of Business Bay Crossing معبر الخليج التجاري The 13 lane **Business Bay Crossing** (In [Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): **معبر الخليج التجاري**; also known as the **Ras Al Khor Bridge** (**جسر راس الخور**)) is one of the most recent bridges across [Dubai Creek](/source/Dubai_Creek) and was opened to traffic in June 2007. Six lanes travel from [Deira](/source/Deira%2C_Dubai) to [Bur Dubai](/source/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](/source/Al_Garhoud_Bridge) near [Dubai Festival City](/source/Dubai_Festival_City) and provides a new road corridor to motorists travelling between [Bur Dubai](/source/Bur_Dubai) and [Deira](/source/Deira%2C_Dubai) and to [Sharjah](/source/Sharjah_(city)), in addition to [Emirates Road](/source/Emirates_Road) and [Sheikh Zayed Road](/source/Sheikh_Zayed_Road). The bridge cost 800 million [dirhams](/source/United_Arab_Emirates_dirham) 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 m (196.850 ft) and a height of 15 m (49.213 ft). The bridge was built by [BESIX](/source/BESIX),[1] a company which made some major bridges in [Dubai](/source/Dubai).The introduction of two new toll gates at Business Bay Crossing on Al Khail Road and Al Safa South on Sheikh Zayed Road will be officially communicated this year. These new Salik toll gates are expected to further regulate traffic flow on some of Dubai’s busiest routes.[2] ## Photo gallery **Construction Photos on 31 January 2007** **Construction Photos on 7 March 2007** **Construction Photos from the air on 1 May 2007** **Construction Photo on 31 May 2007** ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["12 lanes of freeflow traffic in Dubai?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235950/http://m.arabianbusiness.com/12-lanes-of-freeflow-traffic-in-dubai--205113.html). *[Arabian Business](/source/Arabian_Business)*. 2006-05-06. Archived from [the original](http://m.arabianbusiness.com/12-lanes-of-freeflow-traffic-in-dubai--205113.html) on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2017-01-20. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Salik on track to launch two new toll gates in Dubai"](https://gulfnews.com/uae/transport/salik-on-track-to-launch-two-new-toll-gates-in-dubai-1.103838442). *gulfnews.com*. 2024-08-14. 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