DUBAI METRO 2024

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that Noor Islamic Bank is granted the naming right of a Dubai Metro Station at Al Qouz, Sheikh Zayed Road, thus linking the bank with the Dubai Metro project; the iconic urbanized feature of Dubai and the engineering and technological contemporary masterpiece.

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority announced on Wednesday that three more stations will open on the Red Line this weekend. GGICO station in Al Garhoud, World Trade Center station, and Noor Islamic Bank station in Al Quoz, will open on Saturday, according to a statement.

Dubai Metro has lifted 100,368 commuters in a single day (May 2, 2010) according to stats recently released by Rail Agency at the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) about the metro serve across 18 stations on the Red Line.

H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), announced that key bridges in the First Interchange of Sheikh Zayed Road Project will be opened on May 30.

More than 100,000 passengers were lifted on the Dubai Metro in one day, the latest figures released by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) on Sunday have revealed.

The Metro has transported about 80,000 passengers per day in its first six months. The number is expected to rise to more than 140,000 per day in coming months with the opening of the new Metro stations on April 30.

The car rental business in Dubai has not been impacted much by the Dubai Metro and, according to leading players in the industry, there is enough room for different modes of transport to co-exist in the city.

Dubai Metro has achieved a more than 99 per cent punctuality rate, which is the highest of any driverless metro system in the world, Gulf News has learned.

This video was taken today, and shows the journey from Nakheel Harbor and Tower Station, to Rashidiya Station - currently the longest journey that can be taken on the Red line. The music is Vladimir Horowitz playing Prokofiev's Toccata in C, Opus 11. It was recorded a long time ago.

Gradually life is going the Metro way in Dubai. It seems more and more people now prefer to travel by train, leaving their cars home. It not only saves them the ordeal of traffic snarls, but is a source of convenience as well.