Jatrabari flyover poses threat to Dhaka's metro rail project
Dhaka's planned US$1.7 billion metro rail faces an uncertain future as the construction of the Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover has damaged the scope for executing the mass transport project, a study said. According to an interim report by a Japanese team, the flyover would overlap with one third of the proposed 21.5 metro rail, making the implementation of the entire project "almost uncertain".
Extensive improvements of light signals, Traffic Control Center in Dubai
Engineer Maitha bin Udai, CEO of the Traffic and Roads Agency at Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), stated that last December the Agency awarded a contract to an international consultant to upgrade and improve the performance of traffic signals, virtual messaging signs, and the Traffic Control Center in the Emirate.
RTA adopts staggered hours system starting Monday
His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai, announced the introduction of the staggered hours (flexible working hours) for RTA employees as this Monday.
Dubai RTA changes working hours
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai will be open for an extra hour a day thanks to a new set of working regulations that go into effect tomorrow. Kawther Kazim, the director of human resources at the RTA, said the move would increase productivity and improve job satisfaction.
Dubai's Green Line on track for August launch — RTA
The Metro’s second line was originally slated for completion in April 2010 but was slowed by funding and contract delays in the wake of the economic crisis. “The Green Line will be completed in August of this year,” said Abdul Younes, the RTA’s CEO for strategy and corporate governance.
Dubai Metro
Dubai metro video 2011.
Emirates' new mega-project: desert railway
United Arab Emirates boasts the world's tallest building, a man-made island in the shape of a palm and is about to take its next ambitious step - linking cities by rail over the desert. UAE's Union Railway plans a $US11 billion and 1500 km railway project across the UAE estimated by 2017. The project will be phased over several years. In the end, the railway will connect the UAE to Saudi Arabia via Ghweifat city in the West and Oman via Al Ain in the East.
30% of RTA projects to be tendered as PPPs
In the longer term, he confirmed that both the Sheikh Rashid bridge and the Dubai Smile - which will replace the existing floating bridge – would also be tendered as PPPs after 2014, not to mention the operation of the Dubai Metro Green Line and potentially the construction of other lines. "We have a plan to tender the operation and maintenance package of the whole metro system as a ppp in the future. It is also part of the long term plan to tender the construction of the other lines as PPP contracts."
RTA: Dubai Metro's Green Line to open August 2011
Dubai metro’s Green Line will open to the public in August 2011, according to a senior RTA official. “The Green Line will be completed in August of this year,” said Younes.
Road deaths reduced, bus network expanded
"The share of mass transit trips increased from 6 per cent in 2008 to 12 per cent in 2010 and RTA targets to push it further to as much as 30 per cent by 2020 through counting on the Metro, public buses, water bus, water taxi and Ferry Dubai, once launched," said Mohammad Obaid Al Mulla, Board Member and CEO of the RTA.
