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As Dubai Metro's Green Line launch nears Sharjah Transport Corporation (STC) has deployed buses ferrying passengers to the same area. The routes are No.113, Sharjah-Al Qusais and No.111 that commences from Sharjah International Airport linking Dubai, reports 'Gulf Today'.

A walk through any of Dubai’s metro stations will reveal ads marketing the Dubai Metro as the perfect opportunity to catch up on some reading, take up knitting or even start writing your own novel. Novel? Novel ideas more like it.

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 Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has announced that it will continue with its popular 'kids go free' campaign from May 14 to September 30. The campaign this year will include 50 per cent discount on airfare for up to two kids under 12 years when flying Emirates and 25 per cent discount on airfare for up to two kids under 12 years when travelling on flyDubai.

Motorists in Dubai have been warned again not to drive in dedicated bus and taxi lanes to avoid fines. We will use surveillance cameras on the roads with dedicated bus and taxi lanes to monitor private vehicles and will forward the information about offending vehicles to police to issue fines accordingly

'We need maps," is how one Sharjah resident summed up her emirate's transport problems in an online post. "Frequency of buses must be increased," were the thoughts of another. And this: "The only thing stopping people from using public transport is the lack of it."

Dubai roads. Dubai Metro

The Public Transport Agency, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has recently signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Double Decker Bus Tours LLC providing for the two parties to draw up joint strategies and plans to link the services of the Big Bus of Double Decker Bus Tours LLC; which is subject of a huge attention from a wide spectrum of visitors and tourists pouring in Dubai from various corners of the globe, with RTA's marine transit modes; in a step aimed to boost the marine transit service in the Emirate.

Much of what we do in the UAE depends on having the trusted and convenient plastic cards to swipe our way to purchasing new clothes, taking in a movie or travelling on the Metro. But those shiny credit cards, bank-account cards, and RTA Nol Metro cards may soon be a thing of the past due to new technology that will change the way we pay for things.

Commuters and residents are looking forward to the opening of the long-awaited Jebel Ali Metro station on Friday, which is intended to alleviate long and often delayed commutes and increase access to the rest of the city. The station will provide trains to and from the Jebel Ali Free Zone every five to eight minutes during peak hours