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China finds metros a boon as cities boom
It was at a ceremony 45 years ago that construction of the Beijing Subway began. Just as Dubai launched the Dubai Metro urban rail system last year, and Abu Dhabi plans to have its own urban train network from 2016, so China has embarked on a metro building project almost as frenzied as the urbanisation that has made it necessary.
Japan concern over late payments
Japanese builders on the Dubai Metro were among companies that encountered payment problems on local projects, The National reported in November. Late payments to Japanese contractors in Dubai have caused concern about how the country’s businesses should operate in the Middle East, Tatsuo Watanabe, Japan’s ambassador to the UAE, said yesterday.
Commuters still find it tough to ride the Dubai Metro
Readers find the Metro to be a good solution when they have the time to spare but prefer other modes of transportation as it only requires you to get on and off once. Gulf News asked its readers what their options would be.
Connected: subways bring cities to life
The metro is a parallel city, a subterranean network of tubes and cables that mirrors the complexity of the city above, a system of veins and arteries hidden beneath the skin of the street and pumping urban lifeblood.
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In Dubai with Metro; wonderful viewing of the newest city in the worl. 16. Feb 2010.
Dubai Metro at 818 miles per hour
This video was taken (12.09.09), and shows the journey from Nakheel Harbor and Tower Station, to Rashidiya Station – currently the longest journey that can be taken on the Red line.
British contractors owed $2 billion in Dubai
British engineering groups and consultants are owed up to $2 billion (£1.25 billion) by government-related companies in Dubai, following the collapse of the Gulf state’s property market and subsequent debt crisis. WS Atkins, which has worked on the $7.6 billion Dubai Metro project and a number of developments with Nakheel, has cut 30 per cent of its Gulf workforce. The company has declined to reveal how much it is owed.
