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Making ends meet
The Dubai Metro was one such project where the company offered its services. For this project it was decided that the construction be segmented, so parts of the deck are precast elsewhere and assembled on site using a special gantry. “Sometimes if we can’t use the existing design,” he says, “the company proposes an alternative. We were able to achieve a segment for every two days. We own the specialist equipment, and it’s the first of its kind in the GCC.
Dubai Metro operator on track for $8bn global revenues by 2012
Serco, the UK-based operator of the Dubai Metro, said it expected revenues to increase to about $8bn by the end of 2012, on the back of strong global demand for its services. Operating profit margins are forecast to rise to 6.3 percent by the end of 2012, the company said in a statement.
Dubai Metro Green Line extension under consideration
Plans for a 20km extension of the Dubai Metro Green Line to Academic City is being considered by transport officials, it was reported Monday. The project is set to be decided by the end of the year, and is part of a wider review of all projects being undertaken by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), the National reports.
New timings announced for Dubai Metro
The metro will start at 1pm on Fridays – an hour earlier than the current 2pm start – until midnight and will run for an extra hour on Thursdays until midnight. The new timings will come into place on October 15 to coincide with the opening of five new Red Line stations: Nakheel, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Sharaf DG, First Gulf Bank and Business Bay.
Five more Dubai metro stations to open in Oct – paper
According to The National daily, the RTA said at a press conference that The Business Bay, First Gulf Bank, Sharaf DG, Jumeirah Lake Towers and Nakheel stations will open in mid-October. As a result, just three of the 29 stops on the line remain to be completed, the daily added.
Just the ticket
But the Dubai Metro was more than just another infrastructure project. In true Dubai style, it stood out for being the world’s biggest, fully-automated driverless train, and for aiming to be the longest automated metro network service ever once the second line was finished.
Dubai Metro carries 30m passengers in first year
In a statement carried by government news agency WAM, the emirate’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said that passenger numbers had jumped from 1.8 million in October 2009 to 3.3 million last month – a growth rate of 183 percent.
RTA will open ‘some’ Red Line stations in Q4
By // // ]]>AB.com staff www.arabianbusiness.com 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 Transport Authority [...]
