Abu Dhabi cycling and walking path plans on track

The plan involves extending cycling tracks on Sheikh Zayed, Shakhbout bin Sultan and Al Khaleej Al Arabi streets.

Abu Dhabi Municipality is expanding its network of jogging paths and cycling routes. Wam

ABU DHABI // The emirate’s plan to build more than 80 kilometres of cycling and walking paths is well under way, the Abu Dhabi City Municipality announced yesterday.

The plan involves extending cycling tracks on Sheikh Zayed Street by 7,624 metres, Shakhbout bin Sultan Street by 6,700 metres, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street by 6,650 metres and adding a 2,320metre track to Al Nahyan Festivities Yard.

All of these tracks will be 3.5 metres wide and marked in accordance with the Department of Transport standards.

The municipality has built 8,440 metres of cycling tracks of the 17,340 metres that has been planned. The construction of walking and cycling tracks in Khalifa City, Shakhbout City and Mohammed bin Zayed City, stretching between seven and 18 kilometres is also under way.

Construction of the nearly 8km walking track at Khalifa City is 60 per cent complete. The Shakhbout City walking path, about 18.84km, is 50 per cent complete.

The length of the walking track at Mohammed bin Zayed Street is 14.28km and more than 85 per cent of the work is complete.

The combined jogging and cycling tracks in the three cities are 4 metres wide. In cases of a joint walking and cycling track, the two lanes are differentiated by road markings or pavement, with the cycling lane 2.2 metres wide and the pedestrian lane 1.8 metres.

The municipality will add landscaping to the sides of all tracks.

The walking and cycling tracks in Abu Dhabi and the three cities will constitute what the municipality called a “perfect avenue for residents of the three cities to practice sports”.

“The project will also have a positive impact on the appearance of the city, besides offering gorgeous appearance and creative engineering shapes, which will add a further elegance to the stunning skylines of the three cities,” the municipality said.