Archive for Articles – Travel in Dubai

RTA opens bridge linking Dubai Media City and the Greens

Monday, April 5th, 2010
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RTA opens bridge linking Dubai Media City and the Greens

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has opened the bridge linking Dubai Media City and the Greens for traffic, providing a direct link between the two sides of Sheikh Zayed Road in that area. Engineer Maitha Mohammed bin Udai, CEO of RTA Traffic & Roads Agency, said: “The Bridge, whose designs and construction phases have [...]

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RTA opens today bridges leading to Meydan as coop with Meydan City Corp hailed

Saturday, March 20th, 2010
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Mattar Al Tayer

The Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has coordinated with Meydan City Corp to open today (Sunday) bridges and roads leading to Meydan Racecourse at Nad El Sheba. The project comprises bridges extending 2025 meters; including two 710 meter-long bridges, each consisting of two lanes per direction for entering & exiting Meydan, and another private bridge [...]

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Motorized abras ferry 16 million passengers on Dubai creek

Friday, March 19th, 2010
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Motorized abras ferry 16 million passengers on Dubai creek

Marine Agency at Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has transported 16,345,303 passengers in 817,265 journeys made by motorized abras in 2009; according to statistics recently released by the Agency. According to Hussein Al Saffar, Director of Operations and Maintenance Dep’t at RTA Marine Agency, the monthly average of motorized abra ridership clocked 1,362,109 passengers and [...]

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RTA opens today bridges leading to entry/exit points of Mirdiff City Center, costing AED184m

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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RTA opens today bridges leading to entry/exit points of Mirdiff City Center, costing AED184m

Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) opens today Tuesday the bridges leading to the entry and exit points of Mirdiff City Center near Emirates Road. The project comprises a 3-lane bridge for traffic inbound from Emirates Road (Rashidiya) heading towards the Center, and another bridge to serve the traffic inbound from Tripoli Road to the Center. [...]

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RTA will officially open Burj Dubai metro station on Monday 4th January 2010, deploys 11 feeder buses

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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RTA will officially open Burj Dubai metro station on Monday 4th January 2010, deploys 11 feeder buses

Roads & Transport Authority – Mohammed Al Munji: H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), announced that RTA will officially open Burj Dubai metro station on Monday 04 January 2010 to mark the opening of Burj Dubai the tallest tower in the world. “Burj Dubai [...]

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Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) launches four new public bus routes in Dubai

Monday, December 14th, 2009
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Roads & Transport Authority has launched on the first of December 2009 four new bus routes covering several areas in the emirate of Dubai, announced Eisa Abdul-Rahman Al Dosari, CEO of Public Transport Agency at RTA. “The four routes are: Route 22: from Deira Bus Station to Al Nahdah 1 Route 47: from Rashidiya Bus [...]

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RTA inks commuting agreement with University of Wollongong in Dubai

Saturday, October 24th, 2009
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RTA inks commuting agreement with University of Wollongong in Dubai

Roads & Transport Authority , The Public Transport Agency at Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) last week signed a strategic agreement /Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian University of Wollongong in Dubai. The Agreement provides for the Agency to act as a consultant to the University in working out a plan to deploy buses [...]

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Education Ministry and Emirates Transport sign new agreement to provide capable supervisors in school buses

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
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The Ministry of Education signed today a new agreement with Emirates Transport for providing capable supervisors in buses transporting school children in Dubai, Sharjah and Northern Emirates, reported Emirates News Agency. HE Humaid Al Qatami, Minister of Education and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emirates Transport stressed the keenness of the ministry to [...]

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RTA journeys can be planned using Google

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
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Abdullah al Bastaki, director of IT for the RTA in Dubai, with the new Google route finder which was officially launched at Gitex

Passengers can now use the Internet search engine Google for planning their trips using the means provided by the Road and Transport Authority, an official said. The RTA launched many e-services during Gitex 2009 such as the new Nol Card technologies and mParking 
service. Abdullah Al Madani, CEO, Corporate Technical Support Services Sector, RTA said, [...]

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Almost 100,000 passengers use Dubai Metro on Sunday

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
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Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority has announced that almost 100,000 passengers used the emirate’s new metro on Sunday, the first day of the Eid holidays, making it by far the busiest day on the metro since it was launched. A total of 97,527 passengers travelled between the 10 stations on the Red Line, RTA said, [...]

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Metro reflects city’s unique mix of fast pace and tourism

Thursday, September 10th, 2009
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A slice of the life in Dubai was caught on the Dubai Metro Thursday amid the excitement and enthusiasm about a service that could prove to be much more than another mode of transportation. A father was seen guiding his young uniformed daughter as he held her school bag, telling her which station to get [...]

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All aboard Dubai Metro

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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A Metro train makes a trial run on the Red Line on Shaikh Zayed Road. The Metro will help commuters reach strategic areas of the city, and will also branch out into the suburbs through future extensions.

With the launching of the first Metro in the Gulf region, Dubai has achieved a never before attempted milestone – the world’s longest automated driverless train system built in just four years. “The completion of such a massive project in a short period of time speaks volumes about Dubai’s economic strength and its commitment to [...]

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Jebel Ali stations to help workers get easy access to city’s malls, cinemas

Saturday, September 5th, 2009
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The Energy Metro station near Dubai Aluminium Company, Jebel Ali. The station which was earlier called Dubal Station was renamed due to its proximity to the electric plants. The station will be served by feeder buses.

More 50,0000 workers living in the labour accommodation will benefit from the Energy Station and the Jebel Ali Industrial Station on the Red Line of the Dubai Metro. With the launching of the metro, these workers will no more be living in isolation away from the city as they can take the metro and come [...]

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