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The Russian Consul in Dubai expressed his admiration for the Dubai Metro Project, air-conditioned shelters for passengers of public buses, adopting policies to reduce the semi total reliance of the public on private vehicles, and raising the occupancy of other means of transport, including mass transport systems.

H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), announced that RTA has completed construction of all phases of the Dubai Bypass Road, stretching from the environs of Sharjah Emirate at Al Sajaa Interchange and terminating at the exit point from Dubai Emirate to Abu Dhabi Emirate, in a 70 km-long sector constructed at a cost in excess of one billion dirham.

In a meeting recently held at RTA premises, the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) reviewed with Dubai Police the means of boosting the existing bilateral cooperation in several traffic issues related to key services delivered to the public.

As it happens with many things in life, one person’s gain could be another’s loss. The popular adage seems to hold true for many of Dubai’s car rental and passenger transport companies as they grapple to cope with the success of the metro.

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has signed a one-year agreement with DHL. The deal will see the express company provide postal services through the post system known as Packstations at Dubai Metro stations.

Acting upon the feedback of its customers and studies by its planning team, RTA has wrung in comprehensive changes to its feeder services just as it is doing with its standard bus networks. The feeder buses which transport people to and from Dubai Metro stations across the city have been the key component behind the success of the metro as it is a free service for train passengers.

RTA will allocate spaces at the Dubai Metro Stations to install DHLs parcels and documents postal system initially at Khalid bin Al Waleed station and Deira City Center station and the service is set to cover other metro stations later on, according to Adnan Al Hamadi, CEO of RTA Rail Agency.

The Public Transport Agency, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) revealed that it will launch on July 1st a new bus route in Dubai besides broadening and merging other routes as well.

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) announced the completion of all engineering & construction works in the ingress and egress of Al Maktoum International Airport, Jebel in branching out of Emirates Road and Dubai Bypass Road.

For every million passengers who travel on the metro in the emirate, 1.6 have faced crime of any kind, Col Abdullah al-Gaithi, deputy director of Organisational Security and Emergency of Dubai Police, which oversees Dubai Metro security, told the newspaper.