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Under the contract with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), the company will maintain and operate the Red line of the Dubai Metro till September 2021. Serco first began providing its services ...
City Centre Deira station opened on 9 September 2009 as part of the initial stretch of the Dubai Metro, with trains running from Rashidiya to Nakheel Harbour and Tower to City Centre Deira and seven other intermediate stations. [2] In 2011, City Centre Deira was the second-busiest Metro station, handling almost 5.592 million passengers. [1]
The metro runs underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere. [5] All trains are fully automated and driverless. Both the trains and stations are temperature controlled and have platform edge doors. Dubai Metro has a total length of 89.6 kilometres (56 mi) and 55 stations, 35 on the Red Line and 15 on the Green Line. [5]
The Palm Monorail is a monorail line on the Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by the UK-based Serco. The monorail connects the Palm Jumeirah to the mainland, with a planned further extension to the Red Line of the Dubai Metro. [2] The line opened on April 30, 2009 as the Palm Jumeirah Monorail. [3]
The metro is divided into two lines, Red and Green; both lines together recorded a ridership of 164.3 million in 2014 as compared to 137.759 million in 2013 and 109.491 million in 2012. [ 16 ] The total ridership of Dubai's public transport reached 531.350 million in 2014.
The tram connects with the DMCC and Sobha Realty stations of the Dubai Metro's Red Line, and two more stations are expected to connect with the tram in the future. The Dubai Tram is also connected with the monorail of the Palm Jumeirah at the entrance of the Palm from Sufouh Road. [1] Alstom Citadis 402 trams near the Al Sufouh depot in July 2014.
Dubai Internet City (Arabic: مدينة دبي للانترنت) is a rapid transit station on the Red Line [1] [2] of the Dubai Metro in Dubai, UAE, serving Barsha Heights and surrounding areas. [3] [4] The station is named after the nearby Dubai Internet City (DIC). The station opened as part of the Red Line on 30 April 2010.
ADCB (Arabic: بنك أبوظبي التجاري; formerly Al Karama) is a rapid transit station on the Red Line [1] of the Dubai Metro in Dubai, UAE, serving the Al Karama district. [2] [3] The station is named after the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. The station opened as part of the Red Line on 30 April 2010 and was renamed on 15 September 2014. [4]