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INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT - TRANSPORTATION
 Number of bus users in Dubai jumps 11%
Posted on 01/02/2010
There was a significant increase of 11.2 per cent last year in the number of passengers using public buses in Dubai, a senior official has said.
Eisa Abdul Rahman Al Dossari, CEO of the Public Transport Agency at the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, said in a press release on Monday that the RTA had transported about 105 million passengers in more than three million bus trips on 106 local routes in addition to carrying more than 14 million passengers on 362,000 inter-city bus trips on 15
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 Abu Dhabi to introduce 'ladies only' taxis
Posted on 28/01/2010
Women in Abu Dhabi need no longer be concerned about taxi drivers trying to strike up unwanted conversations during a trip. Woman-driven taxis will soon be just a phone call away.
Exclusive taxis for women — ladies' taxis, as they will be known — are expected to hit the streets of Abu Dhabi by the end of March. The service could be booked by telephone, said a senior official on Wednesday.
In the first phase, about 70 taxis will be introduced for women and children younger than 10. The
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 Dubai may spend US$3bn on transport projects
Posted on 21/01/2010
Dubai could spend about US$3 billion (Dh11bn) on transport infrastructure projects in 2010 as it looks to boost the economy and has no issue paying its contractors, said the executive director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). The government has positioned its infrastructure development as central to its status as the Middle East's commercial and tourism hub and has continued to invest in the sector.
"Investing in infrastructure is the driving force for the economy," Mattar Al
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 Al Tayer launches Dubai Metro new portal, RTA website voice browser service
Posted on 19/01/2010
H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Roads '&' Transport Authority, has launched the new portal of Dubai Metro along with the voice browser service of RTA website for the use visually-impaired surfers, in order to enable them benefit from the services offered by the RTA.
In this capacity, the RTA has become the first Middle Eastern government body to offer such type of services to this segment of the community. "The new portal has been designed following an
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 TansAD to introduce taxi ranks in Abu Dhabi
Posted on 18/01/2010
Introducing taxi ranks and double shifts for taxi drivers are the important steps being planned to solve the non-availability of the taxi in Abu Dhabi, a senior official at the taxi regulatory authority, TransAD, said today. The taxi ranks, at the residential and commercial areas in the emirate, will have several facilities for drivers and passengers, Abdullah Sultan Al Sabbagh, General Manager of TransAD, said.
"Once the taxi ranks come up, the Tracking and Dispatching System (TDS) can
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 Dubai Metro lifts 7m commuters in 4 months
Posted on 18/01/2010
A statistic compiled by Rail Agency of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) indicated that Dubai Metro had lifted 7,592,066 passengers from the date it was launched on 9 September 2009 to January 2010 through 11 stations on the Red Line.
Ramadan Abdullah, Director of Rail Operation Department at Rail Agency, stated that the Agency opened Dubai Mall Station on 3 January this year, one day before the official inauguration of the tallest tower in the world coinciding with the 4th anniversary of
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 Burj Dubai Metro station to open along with tower
Posted on 03/01/2010
Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has announced the opening of the Burj Dubai tomorrow will coincide with the opening of the Burj Dubai Metro station.
From tomorrow the RTA will officially operate the Burj Dubai Metro station to mark the fourth anniversary of the accession of His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, as Ruler of Dubai and the
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 Taxis in Abu Dhabi to operate in two shifts
Posted on 26/12/2009
The number of taxis available in the city will improve considerably from early next year when drivers adopt two shifts, according to a senior official.
"There is demand for taxis in the city from 7am till 1 to 2am, so the taxi drivers will start working in two shifts of 12 hours each," Abdullah Sultan Al Sabbagh, General Manager of TransAD, the taxi regulatory authority, told Gulf News.
"This means a taxi will be worked almost 24 hours by two drivers. At the moment, drivers work in one shift
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 Dubai Metro lifts 6m persons in 3 months
Posted on 22/12/2009
The Road and Transport Authority (RTA) yesterday announced that Dubai Metro has lifted nearly 6 million passengers up till 9th of December 2009 through 10 stations over the Red Line.
A statistic prepared by RTA's Rail Agency showed that the number of passengers is steadily on the rise. The number of passengers since the start of the Metro operation on 09.09.09 until the end of September clocked 1,198,699 passengers and the figure went up in October to 1,762,816 passengers. Metro passengers
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 Green Line stations up to 80% completed
Posted on 13/12/2009
Construction of stations on the Green Line has been 50 per cent to 80 per cent completed, according to the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) chairman.
The project is running on schedule to meet the target opening and start of operation in the second half of 2010, said Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director, RTA.
He recently undertook a tour to inspect the progress on the Green Line stations, which cover Al Qusais Depot, the Command and Control Centre, the
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 Make way for the tram
Posted on 10/12/2009
Residents of Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR), Dubai Marina and Jumeirah will travel in comfort and style starting April 2011 on new seven-car trams capable of carrying 300 passengers and maintaining a six-minute headway, XPRESS has learnt.
The trams are part of the Dh3.3 billion Al Sufouh Tram Project by French train maker Alstom which is building the Citadis 402 train sets in France, for shipment to Dubai.
The contract for the system was awarded by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to
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 New bus route launched to create more efficient transportation system
Posted on 04/12/2009
A new bus route linking Mina Zayed to Al Ras Al Akhdar Beach was launched on Wednesday, taking the total number to ten, a senior official said.
"Bus Six is part of the Department of Transport's plan to add new routes on Abu Dhabi island taking the total number to 14," said Saeed Al Hameli, the general manager of the public bus office at the Department of Transport.
Al Hameli added that the new route operates between Mina Zayed, the Indian Social and Culture Centre, Tourist Club (Abu Dhabi
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 More than three million travel by Dubai Metro since launch
Posted on 24/11/2009
The Dubai Metro has broken through the three-million-passenger barrier, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has revealed.
Figures from the authority's Rail Agency reveal that 3,492,175 passengers travelled on the network between September 9, when the first 10 stations on the Red Line opened, and November 11.
Mall of the Emirates Station was the busiest stop on the line with 607,775 passengers boarding the train, according to Ramadan Abdullah, Director of the agency's Rail Operation
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 Public Transport Agency lifts 83million passengers in 9 months
Posted on 05/11/2009
Traffic '&' Roads Agency at Roads '&' Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai revealed that RTA public buses lifted about 83 million passengers by the end of the third quarter of this year in 2 million trips made by the internal bus and inter-city bus services.
Public Transport Agency is set to broaden the public bus routes network in the emirate of Dubai to keep in touch with the requirements of integrated transport modes such as the metro and marine transport modes.
"Through beefing up its
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 First for region with Google map of Dubai transport routes
Posted on 19/10/2009
Google and the Roads and Transport Authority have teamed up to provide an interactive street map, which could make getting around the city easier for residents and visitors.
The introduction of route mapping makes Dubai the first city in the Middle East and North Africa region to be featured on Google's online mapping website, which aims to provide motorists and pedestrians with accurate directions. It includes bus routes and hotels.
"Now you can plan your journey to anywhere in Dubai from
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