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Dubai Metro Targets 1.85m Travellers a Day by 2020Dubai Metro, the ambitious light rail project that will cross the city, will handle 1.85 million travellers a day by 2020, according to a project official.
The fast-track project, which started work at the end of August, will be focused around two metro lines connecting strategic locations on Dubai.
The first trains are scheduled to be in operation as early as summer 2008, according to Dr Abdelgarder Elshabani, Assistant Director General for Dubai Metro and Public transport Affairs.
In his opening speech at MEED's 2nd Middle East Rail Project Conference in Dubai, Dr Elshabani said: 'Dubai's population is increasing at an average of 6 per cent a year - a figure that is due to increase.
Meanwhile, visitor numbers to Dubai are set to skyrocket, Dubai would have ground to a halt if the transport challenge hadn't been addressed quickly.
'In 1997 we looked at the infrastructure in Dubai and it became apparent that the fastest growing city in the world could no longer just rely of its road network to meet all its mobility demands.
The light rail system will answer this need.'
The metro project is part of Dubai Municipality's masterplan for an integrated transport system that will consider rail as part of a network including buses, water transport and cars.
These will all work in conjunction to make
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