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The Sharjah Roads & Transport Authority (Arabic: هيئة الطرق والمواصلات الشارقة), commonly known as SRTA, is the sole major independent government roads & transportation authority in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It was founded in 2014 to keep pace with development and rapid growth within the emirate.
The Al Jubail Bus Station, [1] [2] also known as the Al Jubail Terminal, is a bus station and International Bus Terminal in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is situated in Al Jubail [3] and adjacent to Downtown Sharjah. It is owned by the Roads and Transport Authority (Sharjah).
The Sharjah Public Transport Corporation (SPTC) started the public transport system in Sharjah on 23 May 2008 with 11 buses running on the first route, Route 14 from Sharjah International Airport to Al-Sharq terminal. By November 2008, 142 buses are expected to operate on 18 routes. [48]
In the Bus Network Plan in 2013, 14 bus routes were operated in Abu Dhabi City. [20] In Dubai, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) operates bus services under the name DubaiBus. Buses in Sharjah are operated by Mowasalat, and in Ajman by the Ajman Transport Authority. There are also buses operating between the different Emirates due to the ...
Sharjah has been officially named as a WHO healthy city. [6] The 2016 edition of QS Best Student Cities ranked Sharjah as the 68th best city in the world to be a university student. [7] Sharjah is regarded as the cultural capital of the UAE, [8] [9] and was the Islamic culture capital of 2014 [10] and Sharjah World Book Capital for 2019 by ...
[14] The extension was partially opened on 1 January 2021, with trains running a shuttle service between Jabal Ali and Al Furjan. [ 15 ] The section from Al Furjan to Expo 2020 was opened on 1 June 2021, allowing the extension to be fully operational, as well as the transfer of the main Red Line route from UAE Exchange to Expo 2020.
[13] [14] [15] RTA operates approximately 1,442 buses on 107 routes, carrying almost 7 million riders on roughly 179,000 trips a month by the bus service; however the Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro rail system installed ubiquitously throughout the city.
Sharjah International Airport is home base of the low-cost carrier Air Arabia. The headquarters of Air Arabia is in the Sharjah Freight Center, [6] on the property of the airport [7] in Sharjah, UAE. [6] The center is an old cargo terminal. It replaced RAF Sharjah, which was closer to the city and was opened in 1932.