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RTA will open ’some’ Red Line stations in Q4
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Only some of the final eight stations on the Dubai Metro Red Line will be opened this year, despite a previous promise that the network would be fully up and running by October, the National has reported.
The newspaper quoted a senior official at the Roads and [...]
Dubai Metro achieves 96% punctuality in H1 2010
Serco, who manage and operate the network on behalf of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), added that it estimates that 40m passengers will use the service this year. Currently, around 120,000 passengers use the network, which opened in September last year.
Survey shows lack of interest in GCC public transport
Workers in the GCC countries overwhelmingly opt to use cars to travel to and from their place of employment, according to the results of a Regus survey. In the UAE, four percent of employees walked to work, with the remaining three percent taking the public bus. No respondents said that they used the Dubai Metro to commute to work.
Nakheel hires Serco for Palm Jumeirah Monorail
Developer Nakheel has hired the British company Serco to operate and maintain the Palm Jumeirah Monorail, the company said in a statement. The Palm Jumeirah Monorail was the first such project to be constructed in the Middle East. The system is fully automatic and driverless and can carry up to 2,400 passengers per hour per direction in four separate trains, each made up of three cars. At full capacity, the figure rises to a maximum of 6,000 people in nine vehicles.
Testing times
“The message we are getting loud and clear from everyone who is doing stereo 3D, is that it is vital to get as much right as possible on the shoot,” says Nunney. “Fixing things in post is really not a practical proposition – the costs are too large. You must get the basics – black level, gain for example – right on location, and they have to be perfectly matched between the two cameras in a pair. That means you need a tool like the Hamlet VidScope 3D, that lets you measure these parameters independently but also compare them directly, so you can quickly but very accurately ensure the perfect match.”
Dubai Metro changes service timings for Ramadan
Al Tayer also announced that the RTA had revised the working hours of paid parking zones during the holy month, with the morning session remaining as it is (from 08:00am to 01:00pm), and the evening session starting from 07:00pm till midnight. This, he said, would maintain the same number of hours set for using parking zones in the evening session without any increase. He added: “Revising the parking timing in the evening session was intended to ease the pressure on parking users in the afternoon up to Iftar time.”
The coolest way to ride the water in Dubai
“The fares will depend on the length and type of trip. A tourist trip in one water taxi will cost Dh400 per hour. While regular journey will range between Dh50 to the nearest stations namely the Dubai Creek Park (A,B), and up to Dh570for a trip between the two farthest stations namely the stations of Dubai Festival City and the Jebel Ali Hotel and Spa for Boating and Yachting,” said Al Tayer.
GCC eyeing $170bn transport move over 10-15 years
Transport projects worth $170bn are expected to be put in place in the GCC region over the next 10-15 years, an industry expert has said. About 85 percent of the investment is seen being made in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar while $108bn of it is set to be spent on rail projects.
