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Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the RTA, reaffirmed RTA’s commitment to carry out its plan to emiratise jobs in Dubai Metro. Al Tayer said that emiratisation, and training national cadres to develop their talents and abilities tops the RTA’s priorities, and is in line with achieving its goals and objectives.

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) expects to witness considerable public turnout from various community segments including tourists and visitors with the launch of Green Line of the Dubai Metro.

Roads & Transport & Authority - Manal Khalid: The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), reaffirmed that the construction of the Dubai Metro. Green Line was part of a master plan intended to enhance the integration of mass transit modes and expand public transport reach to all residential, trading & business districts as well as other cultural, sports and health facilities.

"Though the exact date of the inauguration is yet to be determined, we hope to open the Green Line in early September," said Mattar Al Tayer, chairman of the board and executive director of the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). Al Tayer said all stations on the Green Line are in full readiness while trains have been undergoing trial runs for nearly six months.

Delay per daily trip reduced from 15 minutes to 5.5 minutes.

Up to 150 of the second lines’ 800 employees, which will include ticket sales staff, security personnel, train drivers and maintenance workers, will be UAE nationals, the CEO of Serco Middle East Zafar Raja has said.

A Trip on the Dubai Metro from Al Rashedya Station to Ibn Battuta Mall Station. 58 minutes to 2:15minutes

The Dubai Metro’s Green Line is touted by the transport authorities as one that “easily links most of the government departments.” The 16 stations are: Etisalat Station, situated at Al Qusais near Emirates Road; Al Qusais Station, situated near the building of the Ministry of Education and the General Department of Dubai Civil Defence as well as Al Tawar Centre

The Metro’s Green Line, which is likely to have an Eid launch in September this year, will have greater impact than its predecessor, easing traffic particularly in the city’s clogged Central Business Districts (CBD), said Matar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Roads and Transport Authority.

A free newspaper aimed at Dubai Metro commuters was launched yesterday. The weekly title, Read, has an initial print run of 80,000 copies, and is distributed in stations on the network's Red Line.