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Residents of the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) South who had been cut off from their new Dubai Metro station can now access it by bus. Those in Jafza South had been unable to reach the new station, which opened on March 11, due to ongoing construction where the southern side entry and exit pod have yet to be built.

A SOPHISTICATED training centre for the current Dubai Metro’s employees some of them to be posted to various jobs on the Green Line due opening in August, has taken off at the transportation headquarters in Rashidiya.

The Director of Business Development, Public Transport Agency at Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) Mohammed Abu Baker Al Hashimi revealed that the Agency has launched on March 11 a new feeder bus service shuttling between Jebel Ali Metro Station and the southern part of the Jebel Ali Free Zone Area.

In December, Tampa and Miami lost their bids to host the 2022 World Cup soccer games to Qatar, a Middle Eastern nation along the Arabian peninsula. Haddad helped keep Florida's high-speed rail plans current through tumultuous political periods last decade, which enabled the state to lay plans for the nation's first bullet train line and gain $2.4 billion in Obama Administration high-speed rail allocations.

What do you get if you pour thousands of people from over 80 different countries into an enclosed space with little guideline on expected behaviour? A melting pot of cultural differences, in which everyone thinks their way is right. Welcome aboard Dubai Metro.

Al Tayer calls for adherence to proper driving practices as RTA awards winners of short film contest. At least 16 motorists were killed in 2010 in traffic accidents by not keeping a safe distance between vehicles on Dubai roads, said a senior official at the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).

Transport chiefs have reduced the number of employees working for Dubai Metro operator Serco as part of a plan to cut costs, it was revealed on Tuesday. Dubai's Rail Agency, part of the Roads and Transport Authority, also cut back the number of daily trains in operation

ASK has announced the delivery of the first batch of 1.5 million contactless Nol cards for Dubai’s public transit system. ASK’s Nol is a multimodal contactless card used in Dubai’s metro, buses, water buses and parking meters.

THE Dubai Metro operating company, Serco is among the entities that have been asked to revise on the number of employees, as part of initiatives taken to reduce costs. While the agency cuts costs, authorities are silent as to whether metro fares will also go down.

The mParking system broke down once again yesterday morning for hours, forcing motorists to dash to the nearest parking meters to renew their parking fees using coins. This mParking system has become unpredictable as it keeps on failing time and again while motorists end up getting fines for violations which they [did not] commit