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Dubai's latest foray into the global debt market has prompted a good response, and final pricing on the dollar-denominated Eurobond issue may take place as early as today, people familiar with the situation said. "The emirate has delivered on its promises. Examples are the successful restructuring of Dubai World debt, the opening of Al Maktoum International Airport, and the continuing expansion of Dubai Metro," he said.

Dubai’s prospective tramway system has been delayed by two years to 2014 due to the economic downturn, according to the Road Transport Authority (RTA). Abdul Redha Abu Al-Hassan, director of rail planning & development at the government body, said in a conference in Abu Dhabi yesterday that the slump in the construction market caused the RTA to “re-plan our projects again”.

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Al Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG) has joined forces with leading Australian rail contractor John Holland to create Advance Rail Group, a new entity to pursue an expected $75bn in future rail jobs within the GCC region. Based in Abu Dhabi, Advance Rail Group (ARG) is set to become the region's most formidable rail contractor, combining the local knowledge of HLG with the technical expertise of John Holland, an Australian-based specialist international rail contractor with more than 40 years' experience.

The Higher Organizing Committee of the Dubai Award for Sustained Transport (DAST) has recently launched a webpage posted as a link on the website of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) in a bid to promote DAST online. The move is part of a new strategy pursued by the Committee to present the 3rd edition of the Awards in a way outshining the previous two editions, and showcase the e-services offered by the RTA in keeping with the Dubai eGovernment drive.

RTA Chairman of the Board and Executive Director confirmed that the new stations were ready to receive passengers. “22 trains will be deployed during peak time and 16 trains will be in operation during off-peak time, and the service frequency (headway) will be 6 minutes during peak time and 8 minutes during off-peak time. RTA has carried out site surveys covering the neighbourhood of all stations to be opened shortly and accordingly opened new bus routes to feed the metro stations. 28 buses are being deployed to link the metro stations with the surrounding areas and the service is set to run at 13-20 minutes frequency,” he elaborated.

Tests have been conducted and staff deployed at the five new Metro stations set to open in mid-October, a senior Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) official said. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the RTA said: "Five more stations are ready to receive passengers by middle of October."

"Stations to be opened include Business Bay, First Gulf Bank, Sharaf DG, Nakheel and Jumeirah Lake Towers stations, and the remaining three stations will be opened upon completion of real estate and investment projects around them; as they have been especially constructed to serve these projects in which construction works are still underway,"

Key regional projects include the New Doha International Airport metro station box currently under construction and the Palm Jumeirah Monorail, which opened in April 2009 and is the Middle East's first monorail system. It has the capacity to carry 6,000 passengers per hour in each direction and Mott MacDonald ensured that the final product met the client's requirements.

Knorr-Bremse EP2002 Distributed Brake Control on the Dubai Metro.