DUBAI METRO 2024

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has signed a one-year agreement with DHL. The deal will see the express company provide postal services through the post system known as Packstations at Dubai Metro stations.

Acting upon the feedback of its customers and studies by its planning team, RTA has wrung in comprehensive changes to its feeder services just as it is doing with its standard bus networks. The feeder buses which transport people to and from Dubai Metro stations across the city have been the key component behind the success of the metro as it is a free service for train passengers.

RTA will allocate spaces at the Dubai Metro Stations to install DHLs parcels and documents postal system initially at Khalid bin Al Waleed station and Deira City Center station and the service is set to cover other metro stations later on, according to Adnan Al Hamadi, CEO of RTA Rail Agency.

Currently the only other monorail system in the Middle East is in Dubai. The line, which opened last year, links the mainland to the man-made island of Palm Jumeirah -- a residential and leisure mega-project off the coast in the Gulf.

Japanese builders played a pivotal part in Dubai’s construction boom, spearheading work on the Dh28 billion (US$7.62bn) Metro and helping to build Nakheel’s palm-shaped islands off the emirate’s coast.

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

Al Hashemi said that usage of public transport in Dubai has increased from the earlier six per cent to 10 per cent this year after the introduction of an integrated public transport system which includes the Dubai Metro, buses and water transport.

Tourism is also beginning to rebound from its lows in 2008-2009, and large infrastructure projects such as the Dubai Metro, Burj Khalifa, Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubailand, the Yas and Saadiyat Island developments in Abu Dhabi, and many others will definitely attract more tourists as the global recovery gains momentum in the coming few years.

The Public Transport Agency, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) revealed that it will launch on July 1st a new bus route in Dubai besides broadening and merging other routes as well.

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) announced the completion of all engineering & construction works in the ingress and egress of Al Maktoum International Airport, Jebel in branching out of Emirates Road and Dubai Bypass Road.