The Dubai Expo 2020 site will be a pedestrian-friendly zone with accessibility for all at the heart of the project, the senior vice president of real estate and delivery said on Wednesday.
“Accessibility on the expo site is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Our planning is based on this. We have changed and improved the master plan 24 times,” said Ahmed Al Khatib.
The main site will be a combustion engine free zone with bicycles and autonomous vehicles on hand to transport visitors of the world fair.
“We will have people mover systems for all types of users. We will also have around 10km of cycling paths,” said Mr Al Khatib.
He said planners mapped the arrival gates and entrances to pavilions to remove the need for motorised vehicles within the main expo site.
“For the whole expo there will be no cars, it’s all pedestrianised areas. It will be very easily accessible to everything. We have studied the whole expo site very well, we studied the walking distances, the shading, accessibility for different type of users. Not only that we looked at it from the children’s perspective and for the elderly as well,” said Mr Al Khatib.
An expo team also attended the world fair in Milan last year to examine and observe how visitors travelled around the site. More info
By Ramola Talwar Badam emirates247.com
