Tag: rta dubai

The Women Committee at the Roads and Transport Authority is always seeking to host the most competent professional ladies in the UAE community who are specialized in various sorts of knowledge and disciplines.

A private health-care group will launch a traffic awareness campaign next month in collaboration with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to help reduce deaths and injuries on the roads.

The dusty, hazy and near-zero-visibility weather this morning sent social networks into a storm of rumours and scaremongering. Twitter and Blackberry services were full of warning signs of a cyclone hitting the UAE, heading over from Saudi Arabia.

Dubai’s long awaited Al Sufouh tram will meet its deadline of November 2014, according to the main contractor. The consortium of firms working on the project said they have now received outstanding payments from 2009, after the government secured a $675m financing deal for the project’s first phase.

RTA transportation bus on duty at Baniyas Road along the corniche near Grand Hyatt Dubai Hotel.

Dubai's department of finance raised $675 million from a dual-currency loan to complete the first phase of its Al-Sufouh tram project in the emirate.

DUBAI: The Licensing Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started licensing trailers and semi-trailers of trucks, a step they said is aimed at “boosting road safety and protecting public properties”.

“The total number of taxis [on the roads] is 7942. We are not planning to reduce the number of taxis, because we need to have all modes of transport in place,” said Essa Al Dossari, the CEO of public transport at the RTA. “We are serving a number of different categories [of people], including business people and tourists. There needs to be a variety [of options].”

The achievement is yet another feather in the cap for Dubai as Dubai Metro's Red Line had set a Guinness World Record as the longest driverless Metro line in the world extending 52 km, in September 2011. Plans are under way to extend the Green Line to cover Academic City, International City and Lagoons within the next five years, Adnan Al Hammadi, CEO of the Rail Agency at the RTA, said in an interview.

The Filipino community has shown the highest affinity for Dubai Metro, followed by Indians and Europeans, while Emirati commuters make up 12 per cent of Metro users, according to a study conducted by the RTA.