As the Dubai Metro turns one, we look back at some of its key milestones.
# As the Roads and Transport Authority prepares to celebrate one year since the first train chugged out of the Mall of the Emirates station, Gulf News charts historic moments of the journey. # Image Credit: Oliver Clarke/Gulf News # 2005 Workers lay the foundations of the Dubai Metro at a portion of the Al Ittihad Park in Deira. # Image Credit: Hadrian Hernandez/Gulf News # 2006 A worker - who seems to have been caught in a web - puts final touches to a foundation piling for a bridge in Al Awir. # Image Credit: Devadasan/Gulf News2007 Workers are busy laying part of the track of the Dubai Metro. The Red Line extends 52km and comprises 29 stations (4 underground and 25 elevated).
