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Dubai approved an 80km, 12-lane Fourth Corridor in September 2026. Here is the route, the phases, and the communities closest to it.
Dubai has approved a new 80 kilometre road. On 16 September 2026, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, signed off on a corridor that runs the full width of the emirate, from the Sharjah border to the Abu Dhabi border. It becomes Dubai’s fourth north to south corridor, after Sheikh Zayed Road, Emirates Road and Al Khail Road.
Roads move property values quietly, and they move them earlier than towers do. So here is what was actually approved, which parts of Dubai the route passes, and what you should check before paying extra for a road nobody has built yet.
80 kilometres long, with 12 lanes in both directions
Designed for 24,000 vehicles per hour
72 bridges, 17 tunnels and 45 stormwater culverts
Runs from Al Shanouf Road on the Sharjah side to Al Faya Road on the Abu Dhabi side
Passes Al Maktoum International Airport, the Al Marmoom and Al Wohoosh Desert Conservation Reserves, and follows the Etihad Rail route
Announced by Dubai Media Office and reported on 17 September 2026.
Thirty kilometres, from Al Shanouf Road to the Dubai Al Ain Road, at a cost of Dh3.5 billion. It covers 55 lane kilometres at grade, 2.5 kilometres of tunnels and 21 kilometres of bridges and ramps. The drive across this stretch should fall by about 60 per cent, from 35 minutes to 14.
Fifty kilometres, from the Dubai Al Ain Road to Al Faya Road. It covers 190 lane kilometres at grade, 3.5 kilometres of tunnels and 157 kilometres of bridges and ramps. That drive should fall by about 52 per cent, from 50 minutes to 24.
No start date and no completion date have been published for either phase. If somebody quotes you a year for this road, they are guessing.
The corridor passes the airport Dubai is spending Dh128 billion to expand. Emaar South and Madinat Al Mataar already sell on being close to it. A second high capacity road into the same district makes that argument stronger, not weaker.
This belt has been the cheapest way into new Dubai stock for years. Its one real weakness has always been the drive back into the city. A 12 lane corridor running past it is the single change most likely to fix that weakness.
Jebel Ali sits between the new route and Sheikh Zayed Road, so it gains a second option when one of them is jammed. If you are buying an office or a business unit here, having two roads matters more than having a view.
The Dubai Al Ain Road is where Phase 1 ends and Phase 2 begins. That makes it the first junction to be finished and the first area where anything actually changes. Dubailand communities sitting on this road are the clearest Phase 1 winners.
Phase 1 starts at Al Shanouf Road in Sharjah. Plenty of people live in Sharjah and work in Dubai. For them, a 35 minute stretch becoming a 14 minute one is the difference between a commute you put up with and one you choose.
Golf Trails, in Emaar South, Madinat Al Mataar, right beside Al Maktoum International Airport
Terva Homes and Samana South Haven, both in Dubai Industrial City
Samana Business Hub and Peace Avenue, both in Jebel Ali
Jade Tower, Tulip Oasis 11, Estrella By Nexus, Mirari Lagoon by Zoya and Living Legends Phase 5, on the Dubailand and Dubai Al Ain Road side
Road projects move a market in three steps. The announcement moves sentiment and asking prices, often within weeks. Construction moves land values along the route, while making the immediate area noisier and harder to live in. Opening moves rents, because a shorter commute is something a tenant pays for every month.
The step people forget is the middle one. A road approved in 2026 with no published start date can sit between announcement and construction for years. A premium you pay today, for an opening nobody has scheduled, is money with no return date attached to it.
Check the distance to an interchange, not to the road. A 12 lane corridor you cannot get onto for nine kilometres is somebody else’s advantage.
Know which phase you are in. North of the Dubai Al Ain Road is Phase 1. South of it waits for Phase 2.
Look up your own project’s registered completion date on the Dubai Land Department Project Status Enquiry, not in a brochure.
Ask whether the price already includes the news. Compare the price per square foot with a similar project one community away that the route does not touch.
Think about noise. Being on a corridor is worth money. Sitting 200 metres from 24,000 vehicles an hour with nothing in between is worth less.
It is an 80 kilometre, 12 lane road approved on 16 September 2026. It runs north to south across Dubai and becomes the emirate’s fourth major corridor, after Sheikh Zayed Road, Emirates Road and Al Khail Road.
It runs from Al Shanouf Road on the Sharjah side to Al Faya Road on the Abu Dhabi side, passing Al Maktoum International Airport on the way.
Both of its ends meet roads leading into Sharjah and into Abu Dhabi, so it gives traffic moving between the three emirates a third continuous north to south option.
No start or completion date has been announced for either phase. Only the scope and the Phase 1 budget are public so far.
Phase 1 is budgeted at Dh3.5 billion. No figure has been published for Phase 2.
About 60 per cent on the Phase 1 stretch, from 35 minutes to 14, and about 52 per cent on the Phase 2 stretch, from 50 minutes to 24.
On what is known today: the areas around Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai Industrial City, Jebel Ali, and the Dubailand communities along the Dubai Al Ain Road. The Sharjah border side feels it first, because that is Phase 1.
It helps, but it is not a guarantee. Dubai South already had the airport expansion and the logistics zone behind it, and a lot of that is already in the price. Treat the road as one reason among several, not the reason.
That depends on whether the project is priced as if the road already exists. The value sits in projects that were priced before 16 September 2026 and have not been repriced since.
Platinum Square Real Estate follows every off plan project along this route, and we use the registered completion dates from the Dubai Land Department rather than marketing dates. If you want to know which projects near the corridor are still selling on their old numbers, ask the Platinum Square team and we will pull the comparison for you.
