The Emirates Road Project

The Emirates Road with Dubai city in the background

OK, here’s to giving everyone a glimpse of the highway project I’m at everyday.

The Emirates Road is the highway running north-south across the UAE, much like our North-South Highway in Malaysia. Unlike Malaysia, where the current 4-lane highway is being expanded into a 6-lane highway, causing road users to hurl abuses at the Highway authority and whichever Contractor is carrying out the works (due to their tendency to close all but one miserable lane and effectively defeating the purpose of having a bloody highway in the first place, and having the guts to continue extracting ridiculous amounts of toll money from already recession-hit users), Dubai is expanding the Emirates road from an existing 6-lane road (note: not highway) into a hu-friggin-mongous 12-lane super road (note: again not highway) which is absolutely toll-friggin-free. Our Project consists of about 10 km of the said road (not highway) and 3 enormous interchanges with 10 flyover bridges and 2 underpasses. It’ll cost Dubai about a billion dirhams (approx 950 million ringgit) and generates incomes for people like me, and the others working here. Thank you very much Dubai for your foresight in developing your city.


Our office compound (the circular building behind is Dubai's Cricket Stadium, not part of our office)


Group photo of China State Construction, Emirates Road Project team