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Metros are being built in all sorts of unlikely places, such as the Gulf: Dubai’s system opened in 2009 and Mecca’s a year later. Now Abu Dhabi, Doha, Bahrain, Riyadh and Kuwait City have plans in progress; that they have plenty of oil to fuel their cars is not stopping them from trying to become greener.
THE number of passengers who rode the Dubai Metro on New Year’s Eve reached 178,000. This figure, which represented double the number of passengers who rode the Metro during other holidays, was revealed by the Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).
First hand tour of Nakheel’s much-delayed monorail on the Palm Jumeirah, which opened to the public on April 30
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Dubai Home and Office Rents Hold Steady
The opening of the Metro on September 9 has not yet translated into higher rents for properties located close to the train stations, but landlords of such units are hopeful that they will be able to boost rates over time.
HLG awards sleeper contract for Qatar light rail
The Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG), the civil works contractor building Qatar's Education City light rail line, has awarded Rail.One a contract to supply its ballastless track system for the project.
Dubai taxi regulator open to public during Eid
He stressed that DTC would stand ready to receive customer requests for taxi services and despatch taxicabs to a variety of residential districts, shopping malls across the emirate and Dubai Metro stations, besides executing booking and despatch requests, and ensure communication through 04-2080808.
Urban rail news in brief
A 1·5 km extension of Istanbul metro line M2 from Darüssafaka to Haciosman opened on May 23, taking the line length to 18 km. The southern extension of M2 from Sishane to Yenikapi over the new Golden Horn Bridge is expected to open in 2014.
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