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Cheap advertising, eh? Well Kipp hopes RTA gets the memo because last year it ran what Kipp admits is a very creative campaign that involved fake sunny-side up eggs placed on thousands of car hoods across Dubai as part of a campaign to encourage car owners to use the Dubai Metro. The eggs were printed on palm-sized cards and mounted on magnets. It had a small message that read: “It’s a cool 20°C on the Metro”.

Dubai has witnessed completion of 129 projects since 2009 with 237 out of 450 projects likely to be completed in due course, according to information contained in the government’s bond prospectus posted on the London Stock Exchange.

For this end RTA has constructed the Dubai Metro project; which is considered the longest driverless metro line ever constructed in the world as a single project. The Red Line was opened on 9/9/2009 and the Green Line is to be opened next September.

Dubai Metro will absorb approximately 17 per cent of daily trips in the emirate with the opening of the Green line that extends along 23km, according to Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of RTA.

A gang of four Pakistanis allegedly stole electricity cables of Dubai Metro project worth $11,000 and caused the site’s guard 85 per cent permanent disability. The four Pakistanis are all workers and identified as: BAS, 22, AMB, 24, MAM, 23, and NKD, 28.

Realty Capital Middle East FZ LLC has obtained the final completion certificate after wrapping up construction work of its centrepiece "i-Rise" business tower project in TECOM Site C. In addition to its excellent location, convenient access from Sheikh Zayed Road and optimum visibility, i-Rise is also ideally located to offer panoramic views of the Arabian Gulf and the New Dubai skyline. Moreover, it is just a short distance away from the Dubai Metro Station.

Dubai Metro’s Green Line will be completed in August and is expected to open to passengers in September, a senior official at the emirate’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said.

International City and Discovery Gardens continue to beDubai metroar the burden of steep drops in property values brought on by fresh supply entering the market. According to Cluttons, the value of units in the two locations fell by 8.9 per cent in the first three months of the year from the same period in 2010.

The major infrastructure projects and investments in transport sector will expedite the recovery in Dubai real estate sector, a study says. The completion of world-class infrastructure and a business-friendly environment over the last two years will be among the main factors behind the creation of more demand for
 Dubai real estate.

As many as 15 of these crossings are part of the metro Green Line project and would open with the launch of Dubai Metro’s much-anticipated second line, while the remaining five are bridges being built on roads considered to be pedestrian black spots like Emirates Road, Abu Baker Siddique Road, Rebat Street and Baniyas Street.