DUBAI METRO 2024

The project budget is US$400 million, with an additional US$190M set aside for a 2-kilometre (1 mi) future extension to the Dubai Metro. A journey on the monorail costs Dhs15 one-way, 25 return.

The Head Office of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), as well as other affiliated offices, public transport means and associated facilities across Dubai Emirate have all been dressed up in an elegant fashion with fabulous portraits of HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan President of the UAE, and HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, besides other manifestations exhibiting the joyful and cheerful festive atmosphere in celebration of the 39th National Day of the UAE.

The Customers Council, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has recently held its 11th gathering to discuss passenger transport on public taxis with the aim of gathering broader suggestions towards upgrading this vital sector in the Emirate of Dubai. The gathering was attended by Mohammed Obaid Al Mulla, RTA Board Member, CEO and Customer Council Chairperson, as well as Dr. Aysha Al Busmait, Director of Customer Services; Abdullah Yousef Al Ali, Director of Franchise and Enforcement, Public Transport Agency and Hussain Al Banna, Director of Traffic Dep’t, Traffic & Roads Agency.

The new bridge will link Dubai Healthcare City, Sama Al-Jadaf, and the Culture Village at Bur Dubai, on one side of the Creek, and Dubai Festival City, the Lagoons, International City, and Dubai Design Centre at Deira on the other.

A diplomat at the Pakistan Embassy in Abu Dhabi said that Mr Shahbaz Sharif CM of Punjab province in Pakistan who is leading a top level business delegation to Dubai in December to attract investors to Punjab, will talk to the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority for possible partnership on the Metro project.

A view from the front of one of Dubai's driverless Red Line metro trains operating from Mall of the Emirates and Rashidiya on the section between Mall of the Emirates and Burj Khalifa.

Frustrated with the disobedient men who insist on entering the Women Only cabin, Delhi women decided to mete out their own brand of punishment. Kipp has blogged about the wonderful experience that is travelling on the Dubai Metro during rush hour before, and the rants have sure proven therapeutic. But perhaps not as effective as the actions of female passengers on Delhi’s metro; we are officially inspired.

“We have so many lines...We have Purple, we have blue, which all will be revisited... to see the feasibility... the whole issue is how to go about it...”, said Adnan Al Hammadi, Chief Executive officer of the Rail Agency of Dubai Road and Transport Authority or RTA, on the sidelines of an Roadex-Railex conference in the capital. The chief executive officer said that “there are planned extensions to the Red Line as well as Green Line, which are being revisited and will be announced in the master plan next year.”

The UAE has already committed $7.6bn in Dubai on the Metro (red and green lines) and another $3.26bn on several major road projects which is addition to a public-private partnership (PPP) with Italian construction and infrastructure company Salini Costruttori, to overhaul sections of the UAE-Saudi Arabia Highway.

Quashing rumours of further delay in the opening of the Green Line, Abdul Mohsin Ebrahim Younus, CEO of Strategy and Corporate Governance at the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), said there would be no further delay as the construction work would be completed in August according to revised plans.