Sheikh Zayed Road

Sheikh Zayed Road or simply known as SZ road is the main road of Dubai. It's actually the center of the New Dubai, where all those new modern building were build. I live along SZ road but the problems is that whenever I travel out of my house, I need to pay 4dirham Salik (Toll) charges and that Sux! But since I am car-less now, I need not to pay plus I can take alot of pixs while walking.Buildings along SZ road comprise of Residential as well as commercial. Lot of the residential Towers are actually owned by Emirates Airlines thus there are high concerntration of Cabin Crews here.Burj Dubai can be seen almost everywhere and its located along the SZ road. All those high rise buildings around it are actually more than 60 storeys high but when they stand near to Burj Dubai, it looks like they are only 20-30 high. Optical Illusion...Its very hard to find parkings during peak hours along the service roads of SZ road. Beside the limited parking spaces, there are also lot of cars stopping in between buildings to pick & drop passengers. Parking use to be free in Dubai but not anymore... One of the way for the Dubai government to look for extra revenue and discourage people from driving. 1dirham for 1hour, 3dirham for 2hour, 5dirham for 3hour & 8dirham for 4hour... If get fines--> 150dirham... Another reason for the bad traffics along the SZ service road is the construction of the METRO (LRT), There are excavation and overhead bridges everywhere.

This is no underground passage although there is one for crossing SZ road, this structure is to protect people who pass through building which still under construction from being hit by falling object. Dubai authorities do take Safety & Health at construction site seriouly.

This is the 0ld bus stand... it actually has been replaced by the air con Bus stop. I dunno why they still keep this broken bus-stand here? For romantic reason? to remind people that they use to sit under sun 50celcius to wait for a bus?

The 3wheel bicycle or tricycle is an effective way to transports stuffs from grocery stores to clients apartment. It might not be as flexible as a 2wheel but it offer better stability... give & take in life! At night this side of the road is a busy as its in the day... disco, pub, restaurants... one of the most famous disco/pub Zinc is located inside the Crowne Plaza along this road. Famous because Cabin crews can get 50% discount for drinks. I have an unforgetable experience related to this road. I finished drinking with my colleague at 2am and I tried to catch a taxi back but no taxi wanna take me home because the road was blocked to enable the installtion of the connecting bridge between 2metro station. I apartment maybe about 3KM from here but in a freezing night... 10C... I aint going to walk the walk... so go back and drank some more... till 3am... but the road still close... aiy0... sit at the road side till 4am... before traffic resume to normal.... All i wanted was a nice hot shower & sleep...

SZ road not the center anymore... more classy pubs in Marina now... Time change... location also change...