Tag: Dubai Metro

HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has recently explored with HE Arun Kumar, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets, U.S. Department of Commerce, the prospects of cooperation between the RTA and American firms engaged in rail, roads and transport sectors.

Whether the cost of renting and buying apartments in Dubai have become more or less expensive, one thing is certain: you’ll pay a premium if you choose to stay near a metro station.

You are waiting at a traffic signal at a busy junction in Dubai. You see that the adjacent signal has free-flowing traffic, while when it’s your turn to move, the signal only seems to allow four cars to pass. Sounds familiar?

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that the number of transactions processed by affiliated customers service centers last year amounted to 640,386 transactions, topped by licensing transactions of various types, followed by NOCs, parking services, federal system, and commercial licensing transactions.

Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) revealed that completion rate in Phase I of the Dubai Water Canal project had hit 40 per cent.

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has continued its promotional campaign to promote the new Dubai brand by displaying it on its public transport means (Dubai Metro, public buses, waterbus, water taxi, Dubai Ferry, and shortly on taxis), on Nol cards and Nol Vending Machines. Besides, producing number plates carrying the new brand in mid of this December.

Mark the date – 11/11/14. That’s November 11, 2014. This day onwards, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority’s (RTA) new packages for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual subscription to the unified fare card (Nol card) will come into force.

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the timing of various services to be delivered during Eid Al-Adha holiday at Customer Service Centers, paid parking zones, public buses, Dubai Metro, marine transit modes, driving schools and institutes, and vehicles testing and registration centers.

Dubai's Emaar Properties said it would sell up to 25 percent of its shopping mall and retailing unit in a public offer expected to raise 8 to 9 billion dirhams ($2.18-$2.45 billion), making it one of the region's largest equity offers since 2008.

Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that mass transit systems of the RTA - comprising the Dubai Metro, public buses, marine transit modes and taxis (Dubai Taxi and franchise companies taxis) - have all lifted 440.672 million passengers in 2013, according to statistics released by RTA Statistics Section.