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Roads & Transport Authority - Mohammed Al Munji: Dubai metro 06.00 am and continue until 01.00 am (after midnight) during weekdays, and from 02.00 pm to 01.00 am on Fridays, announced H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board & Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA). Al Tayer also announced a revision in the working hours of paid parking zones during Ramadan where the morning session will remain as it is (from 08.00 am to 01.00 pm), and the evening session will start from 07.00 pm to 12.00 am (midnight), thus maintaining the same number of hours set for using parking zones in the evening session without any increase.

"The Water Taxi faring depends on the length and type of trip, as the tourist trip fares at AED 400 per hour for one Water Taxi. While the regular journey ranges between the AED 50 to the nearest stations namely the Dubai Creek Park (A, B), the fare will be up to AED570 for the 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.

H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board & Executive Director of Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), recently received H.E. Mohammed Abdi Hilo, Ambassador of the Kenyan Republic to the UAE, H.E. Nadolo Welfred, Manager of Nairobi Municipality, and other delegation members from various Kenyan departments and organizations.

Emirates Airlines Station had 150,670 passengers and Terminal One at Dubai International Airport had 116,000 passengers despite initial rules – now overturned – that banned luggage bigger than a carry-on-bag.

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has launched Safety Awards to be given annually to consultants, contractors and other entities related to RTA projects in a bid to ensure its partners adopt the best safety practices.

The Russian Consul in Dubai expressed his admiration for the Dubai Metro Project, air-conditioned shelters for passengers of public buses, adopting policies to reduce the semi total reliance of the public on private vehicles, and raising the occupancy of other means of transport, including mass transport systems.

H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), announced that construction works in most stations of the Dubai Metro Green Line have been completed, while the completion of stations’ interior finishing works varies from 10 to 100 per cent.

Interferry has announced the selection of Dubai Emirate for hosting the 37th Annual Interferry Conference 2012; which is considered one of the most important specialized conferences in water transport industry, thus bringing the Conference for the first time to the Middle East.

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.

H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), received at his office His Excellency Kees Van Spronsen, the Netherlands Consul General in Dubai.