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Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will finish linking its centres to the Federal Traffic System by end-February, reported 'Al Bayan; newspaper. Once the new system is launched, Dubai-registered vehicles can renew registrations from other emirates and vice-versa.

More than 2500 employees and officials of Dubai Municipality, Dubai Land Department, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and etisalat office in Dubai ditched their cars today. Director General of DM Hussain Nasser Lootah led the initiative by travelling on the Metro from Rashidiya Station to Union Station adjacent to the Municipality headquarters.

HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai punched in the first ticket exactly at 9pm, 9 minutes and 9 seconds, marking the official inauguration of the first metro system in the Gulf region.

It was at a ceremony 45 years ago that construction of the Beijing Subway began. Just as Dubai launched the Dubai Metro urban rail system last year, and Abu Dhabi plans to have its own urban train network from 2016, so China has embarked on a metro building project almost as frenzied as the urbanisation that has made it necessary.

Japanese builders on the Dubai Metro were among companies that encountered payment problems on local projects, The National reported in November. Late payments to Japanese contractors in Dubai have caused concern about how the country’s businesses should operate in the Middle East, Tatsuo Watanabe, Japan’s ambassador to the UAE, said yesterday.

Readers find the Metro to be a good solution when they have the time to spare but prefer other modes of transportation as it only requires you to get on and off once. Gulf News asked its readers what their options would be.

The metro is a parallel city, a subterranean network of tubes and cables that mirrors the complexity of the city above, a system of veins and arteries hidden beneath the skin of the street and pumping urban lifeblood.

Dubai metro and Sheikh Zayed Roa. 01.03. 2010

In Dubai with Metro; wonderful viewing of the newest city in the worl. 16. Feb 2010.

This video was taken (12.09.09), and shows the journey from Nakheel Harbor and Tower Station, to Rashidiya Station - currently the longest journey that can be taken on the Red line.