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Dubai spends $250M to get full control of Atlantis
Atlantis opened for business in September 2008, shortly after a construction fire damaged part of the brightly painted lobby. The 1,537-room hotel is at the top of the Palm Jumeirah, the first of Dubai’s palm-shaped manmade islands and the only one that is developed. Visitors arrive by monorail or by traveling through an underwater tunnel.
SMRT
Over the years, SMRT has acquired considerable knowledge and experience of designing, operating and maintaining both driven and driverless MRT systems, and has a growing consultancy arm that offers advice on all aspects of MRT, from initial design and specification through to operations and maintenance. Among the many international projects it has worked on to date are the Palm Jumeirah monorail in Dubai which it also operated for three years, and MRT systems in Korea, Mumbai, Chennai and Ho Chi Minh City.
Palm Monorail. Jumeirah Palm Island. Atlantis Hotel.
Metro trip from Atlantis Hotel in Palm Jumeirah Island
Palm Jumeirah monorail – November 2010
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.
SMRT’s Q2 net profit falls 13.3%
SMRT said its second-quarter net profit fell 13.3 per cent from a year earlier to S$45.8 million. The next 12 months may be challenging, the transport operator said. Profit declined despite revenue for the period rising 7.2 per cent to S$246 million.
The Jumeirah Palm Monorail
This monorail is normally pretty empty most of the time. It’s driver-less, runs the trunk of the palm and really cheap. Great views.
I would recommend a taxi to the monorail station then ride it to Atlantis.
Palm Jumeirah Island Monorail جزيرة النخلة جميرا الخط الأحادي
Palm Jumeirah Island Monorail. Video. August 2010
Urban rail news in brief September 2010
Serco took over operation of the 5·5 km Palm Jumeirah monorail in Dubai on August 6. The privately-promoted monorail serving the offshore development had been operated by SMRT Engineering since it opened in May 2009.
