The special carriage reserved for women and children only on Dubai Metro has proven to be very popular and is often packed out in peak hours. In light of this the RTA have reviewed the situation and have decided to…
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So the final station on the Dubai Metro Red Line opens today – the Energy station between Ibn Battuta and Danube. This is the last of the 29 stations to open on the red line since it started on 09/09/09….
Emirates 24/7 reports that users of the Dubai Metro and indeed other forms of public transport will be able to use their smart phones for check in and out on public transport services from today if they have a specially…
Take advantage of the fact that it is free to travel on the Dubai Metro tomorrow (Wednesday 13th February 2013). This is because it is part of the RTA’s annual car free day initiative that tries to get more people to use…
So the new walkway linking the Metro Station at Dubai Mall/Burj Khalifa is now open so that you can comfortably walk from the station to the Mall without having to go outside. Previously it was necessary to either walk the…
In keeping with the usual habit of using memorable dates to open Dubai Metro stations and other connected projects, on 12 December 2012 one of the two remaining Dubai metro stations that has not yet opened, will be open to…
When the idea of the Dubai Metro was first launched, the RTA came up with the idea to offer out to tender the naming rights for any of the Metro stations. This basically meant that if a company stumped up…
For the 3rd consecutive year, the RTA has announced that there will be a day of free public transport on the occasion of the anniversary of their organisation tomorrow. This has also happened on the last two years on 1st…
The new Dubai metro express services start this week – the services stop only at the most popular stops so that they reduce the journey time by about 10 minutes from end to end. There are only two services to…
So from October there will be new express trains introduced to the Dubai Metro timetable. Two trains will run from each end of the red line starting from Jebel Ali and Rashidiya at 5.30 and 5.40am. The trains will only…