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H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has recently received H.E. David Wooton, Mayor of the Financial District in London, along with H.E. Alan Yarrow, the Sheriff of the City of London.

A team from the Unified Automated Fare Collection Dep't at the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has recently visited the Dubai Thalassemia Center as part of community-oriented initiatives of the Dep't and in keeping with RTA's strategy of shouldering its responsibilities towards various human & community organizations and lending all forms of support to them.

The Women Committee at the Roads and Transport Authority is always seeking to host the most competent professional ladies in the UAE community who are specialized in various sorts of knowledge and disciplines.

A private health-care group will launch a traffic awareness campaign next month in collaboration with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to help reduce deaths and injuries on the roads.

The dusty, hazy and near-zero-visibility weather this morning sent social networks into a storm of rumours and scaremongering. Twitter and Blackberry services were full of warning signs of a cyclone hitting the UAE, heading over from Saudi Arabia.

Dubai’s long awaited Al Sufouh tram will meet its deadline of November 2014, according to the main contractor. The consortium of firms working on the project said they have now received outstanding payments from 2009, after the government secured a $675m financing deal for the project’s first phase.

RTA transportation bus on duty at Baniyas Road along the corniche near Grand Hyatt Dubai Hotel.

Dubai's department of finance raised $675 million from a dual-currency loan to complete the first phase of its Al-Sufouh tram project in the emirate.

DUBAI: The Licensing Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started licensing trailers and semi-trailers of trucks, a step they said is aimed at “boosting road safety and protecting public properties”.

“The total number of taxis [on the roads] is 7942. We are not planning to reduce the number of taxis, because we need to have all modes of transport in place,” said Essa Al Dossari, the CEO of public transport at the RTA. “We are serving a number of different categories [of people], including business people and tourists. There needs to be a variety [of options].”