Dubai feeling the strain of explosive growth while real estate prices fly and roads are drowned with vehicles

Dubai, the United Arab Emirates-Skyscraper Dubai has been in a hot belt for the last five years and some residents have begun to feel burned.

The city-state has seen recorded transactions of real estate and while more and more people come to live there, and Emirates Airline owned by its state is booking the record income. But all that growth comes with strains for the city’s population.

Traffic feels worse than ever in the streets of Dubai. Housing pricing continues to grow with new real estate projects that are announced almost day. Caught in the middle are its two citizens Emira of Emirate and the broad population of foreigners who empower its economy – causing rare public expressions of concern.

“Dubai is in the steroid but the risks of affordability are increasing,” Hasnain Malik warned in a report that he wrote about the global TELEMER data firm, where he is a managing director.

Prices of growing housing

According to Dubai’s current plans, the city aims to have 5.8 million inhabitants by 2040, adding more than half of its current estimated population in just 15 years. Since 1980, its population has already grown from about 255,000 to about 3.8 million.

Real estate ignited the fire in Dubai’s growth in 2002, when the desert sheikdom begins to allow foreign property. After the fall of Sharp during the two financial crises 2008-2009 and the short blockage of the Dubai coronavirus, prices have risen.

Today, the average square prices are at high levels of all time, according to property monitoring. Rental prices increased up to 20% in the main neighborhoods last year, with further risks such as this year, with some residents moving towards the habits further in the desert, said the firm of real estate Engel & Völkers.

Saved road

Even in front of the boom, some people working in Dubai chose to live in the next emirate of Sharijah, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the city, or beyond. About 1 million passengers from other Emirates already 12 lanes Sheik Zayed crossing the city center and other highways every day, as studies suggest that up to four out of five employees are just working.

This traffic has only intensified with Dubai’s new arrivals.

While the rest of the world had as much as a 4% increase in the number of vehicles registered in the last two years, the city’s road and transport authority says there has been a 10% increase in the number of vehicles.

So many vehicles have been registered that the city has had to make long license plates.

And as the city continues to build new flights and other road traces, more cars are coming from more directions than ever before.

“Dubai is very attractive, more and more people are coming,” said Thomas Edelmann, the founder and managing director of Roadsafetua, who defends on traffic issues. “I think it’s easier to get a way to come to Dubai and persuade them to Dubai, then build a new junction or a new highway.”

Bum concerns raised by Emiratis

Overloading has become so bad that you are driving even the prominent emirate to break their usual silence in public works.

Habib to Mulla, a prominent lawyer Emirati, written on Social Platform X in December that while authorities were working for blockages, the problem asked “a set of mechanisms immediately and long -term”. He followed him by publishing part of his opinion twice, citing “blockages” as among “pressing issues” for global cities like Dubai.

While expressed in a gentle language, Mulla’s comments represented rare public criticism in the United Arab Emirates, where speech is strongly controlled by criminal law and social norms favor raising cases in a “Majlis” – a semi -high setting gathered by a traditional ruler.

“The concentration of wealth and opportunities created in global cities can cause inequality that pushes low -income residents,” Mulla warned in the English -language newspaper Khaleej Times in Jan. 15

“The problem becomes acute when wealth and opportunities remain inaccessible to the segments of the national population proving the seduction of the city captured by foreigners. This may make sense of social risks if they do not soften.”

Then there is a demographic disturbance as the population part decreases. While the number of citizens is not public, a return back, the informal calculation divided for years by experts suggests that the citizens of the Emirates represent about 10% of the total population of the country more than 9 million, a number that is likely to dropped while strangers rush.

In December, the preaching scripts released for December. 13 Friday prayers directly touched on the task of having more children.

“The growth of offspring is both a religious obligation and a national responsibility, as it contributes to the protection and sustainability of nations,” the preaching is read, according to a transcript issued by the general authority of the Federal Government of Islamic Affairs and Donations.

A search for high -tech solution

For Dubai’s autocratic government, supervised by Sheikh ruler Mohamed bin Rashid in Maktoum, possible solutions for heavy traffic have begun from practice to ghost. The government in recent months has repeatedly encouraged companies to allow more remote work opportunities, including in a report issued in November that also suggested amazing and flexible work hours.

Adding as many five days of work per month, along with other steps, “can reduce the morning travel time in Dubai by 30%,” the study said.

The Dubai road numbers system, known as Salik, has added ports to load more drivers and will create supervision prices at the end of the month. The Dubai Metro, which boasts the longest railway line in the world, will also grow beyond its widely north-south roads in an expansion of nearly $ 5 billion.

Then is the flying taxi project. Since 2017, Dubai has announced plans for air booths in the city. A first “vertiport” is being built by Dubai International Airport in order to provide service from next year.

Dubai also plans 3,300 kilometers (2,050 miles) new pedestrian trails, though during the summer months in Dubai pedestrians should fight with high humidity and heat of about 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).

“In the coming years, Dubai residents will be able to move by walking, cycling, its wide network of roads and bridges, meters and its new lines, water taxis or flying taxis on specific airways.” , said Sheikh Mohamed on X in December.

But for now, Dubai continues to attract more people and more cars – and traffic jams just last.