Tag: Dubai Tram

The Dubai tram, which is expected to provide accessibility and mobility within Dubai — particularly in the new leisure and business districts of the emirate — will undergo testing for three months from July end to October before it commences operations by November this year.

“The Inter-City public buses make 900 daily trips through 12 routes connecting Dubai with other emirates, lifting more than 35,000 passengers, whereas the seven routes connecting Dubai emirate with Sharjah carry more than 17,000 passengers a day,” he added.

Almost Dh13 billion in time and fuel was saved as a result of projects and initiatives of Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) in 2013, an increase of 345 per cent in comparison to the almost Dh3 billion in savings made in 2006.

At the start of the visit, Ibrahim Al Haddad, Director of Commercial and Investment, RTA Strategy & Corporate Governance Sector, welcomed the visiting delegation in the context of exchanging knowledge and experience with a view to pushing up the quality of deliverables to the highest standards of quality and excellence.

Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced a reduction of the speed limit along Al Sufouh Street as the $1bn Dubai Tram projects moves into its final stages

How to better manage traffic accidents, coming diversions at Al Safouh Street for Dubai Tram-related construction, dedicated bus and taxi lanes, and the trial run of pool vehicles, was discussed at a high-level meeting between Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman and Executive Director of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), and Major-General Khamis Mattar Al Mazinah, Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police.

“Desert Rose is an Emirati housing project that will have recreational and sustainable features, where the roofs of homes and buildings will be covered with solar panels that will provide 200 megawatts of electricity. The city will also recycle over 40,000 cubic metres of waste water,” said Al Hajiri. He explained that some of the main features of the sustainable city will also include an electronic train track connected with Dubai Metro

While the world population is expected to grow to 8.3 billion by 2030, public transport will remain the backbone of multi-modal mobility services in the future. This was affirmed by a transport expert, who predicted a significant spike in the use of public transport in the region by 2025.

The first MoU was signed on behalf of the RTA by HE Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the RTA; and on behalf of the Public Prosecution it was signed by HE Advisor Esam Eisa Al Humaidan, Attorney General of Dubai emirate.

OCI, the Amsterdam-listed group headed by the Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris, plans to sell its 50 per cent stake in builder Besix, the company building the Dubai Tram.