The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has issued a detailed traffic advisory ahead of ‘Dubai Ride 2025’, part of the month-long Dubai Fitness Challenge. From 03:00 to 10:00 on Sunday 2 November 2025, sections of Sheikh Zayed Road, Lower Financial Centre Street and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard will be fully closed to vehicles as thousands of cyclists take over the usually gridlocked highway.
Businesses with early-morning cargo movements or airport transfers should reroute via Upper Financial Centre Street, Al Wasl Road or Al Khail Road; RTA warns that vehicles left on the route after 02:30 will be towed. Hotels along the corridor have been advised to stagger staff reporting times, and airlines have alerted crew to allow extra transit time to Dubai International Airport.
![Dubai Ride 2025 to Close Sheikh Zayed Road and Financial Centre Streets on 2 November]()
Now in its fifth year, Dubai Ride is expected to draw more than 35,000 participants, many of them expatriate employees completing the 12-km ‘business challenge’ loop in corporate teams. Organisers offer free bike rentals, making the event a magnet for visiting delegates already in town for Gulf Information Security Expo (GISEC) and other trade fairs that overlap.
Global-mobility teams moving assignees or VIP visitors on 2 November should pre-book hotel-airport shuttles outside the closure window or consider the Dubai Metro, which will start early services at 04:30. Temporary pedestrianisation underscores Dubai’s push to position itself as an active-living destination and may become a blueprint for future large-scale mobility events.
Businesses with early-morning cargo movements or airport transfers should reroute via Upper Financial Centre Street, Al Wasl Road or Al Khail Road; RTA warns that vehicles left on the route after 02:30 will be towed. Hotels along the corridor have been advised to stagger staff reporting times, and airlines have alerted crew to allow extra transit time to Dubai International Airport.
Now in its fifth year, Dubai Ride is expected to draw more than 35,000 participants, many of them expatriate employees completing the 12-km ‘business challenge’ loop in corporate teams. Organisers offer free bike rentals, making the event a magnet for visiting delegates already in town for Gulf Information Security Expo (GISEC) and other trade fairs that overlap.
Global-mobility teams moving assignees or VIP visitors on 2 November should pre-book hotel-airport shuttles outside the closure window or consider the Dubai Metro, which will start early services at 04:30. Temporary pedestrianisation underscores Dubai’s push to position itself as an active-living destination and may become a blueprint for future large-scale mobility events.
