Head
of Dubai's transport authority hails progress on extension of the Red Line of
Dubai Metro to the Expo 2020 site
Mattar Al
Tayer, director-general and chairman of the RTA, inspected progress on several
stations including Expo, Al Furjan and Nakheel Harbour and Tower Stations.
Dubai's transport authority on Saturday announced that its Route
2020 project, which is the extension of the Red Line of Dubai Metro to the Expo
2020 site, has reached 70 percent completion.
Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said the completion
rate of track work on the line which extends 15km from Nakheel Harbour and
Tower Station has hit 80 percent while 50-60 percent of the station works have
been finished.
Viaduct construction work had been completed spanning 11.8km, it
added.
Mattar Al Tayer, director-general and chairman of the RTA,
revealed these details during an inspection tour to several stations including
Expo, Al Furjan and Nakheel Harbour and Tower Stations.
He attended a briefing by AbdulMohsin Ibrahim Younes, CEO of
Rail Agency, and Abdul Redha Abu Al Hasan, executive director of Rail Planning
and Projects Development.
Al Tayer inspected the progress of the Expo Station which will
handle millions of visitors to serve the Expo 2020 site and comprises a ground
floor, mezzanine, concourse, and a train platform level.
The central corridor at the concourse level links pedestrian
movement between the two sides of the station. It has been designed to handle
the expected number of riders during the period of Expo 2020.
The station has a capacity of 522,000 passengers per day in both
directions, at a rate of 29,000 passengers per hour per direction.
Al Tayer also inspected the progress of work at Al Furjan
station and Nakheel Harbour and Tower Station – a transfer station between
Dubai Metro Red Line and Route 2020.
The RTA said the new metro carriages have been arriving in Dubai
since August 2018, and the construction of viaducts was completed in November
last year.
All rail works of Route 2020 are scheduled for completion by May
with the RTA starting a test-run of the metro in February 2020.
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