Dubai Metro Joyride #68

Описание: The Dubai Metro is a rapid transit rail network in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is currently operated by a consortium of the French company Keolis and Japanese Company MHI as Keolis-MHI. The Red Line and Green Line are operational, with a major 15km extension to the Red Line known as Route 2020 to the Expo 2020 site announced in April 2015 and opened in 2021. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere. All trains are fully automated and driverless, and, together with stations, are air conditioned with platform edge doors. Architecture firm Aedas designed the metro's 45 stations, two depots and operational control centers. The Al Ghurair Investment group were the metro's builders.

The first section of the Red Line, covering 10 stations, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 pm on 9 September 2009, by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai, with the line opening to the public at 6 am (UTC 04:00) on 10 September. The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula and either the second in the Arab World (after the Cairo Metro) or the third (if the surface-level, limited-service Baghdad Metro is counted). It is the fourth in the Middle East, as Iran and Israel also have Metros.

More than 110,000 people, or nearly 10% of Dubai's population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation. The Dubai Metro carried 10 million passengers from launch on 9 September 2009 to 9 February 2010 with 11 stations operational on the Red Line. Engineering consultancy Atkins provided full multidisciplinary design and management of the civil works on Dubai Metro.

Until 2016, the Dubai Metro was the world's longest driverless metro network with a route length of 75km, as recognized by Guinness World Records in 2012. The system was surpassed by the Vancouver SkyTrain in 2016 for the longest fully automated system in the world but regained the title in 2021 with the opening of Route 2020. However, its total route length have since been surpassed by the automated lines of the Singapore MRT. Nevertheless, the Red Line, at 52.1km, remains the world's longest driverless single metro line.

The Dubai Metro is operated by keolis under contract to the Roads & Transport Authority. It has been renewed a number of times, most recently in March 2019. In March 2021, the French-Japanese consortium of Keolis and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was announced as a new operator from 8 September 2021.

Red Line trains run every 5 to 7 minutes off-peak (averaging 8.5 trains/hr), with a minimum headway of 3min45sec (16 trains/hr) during peak hours, with 44 trainsets in service. Trains from the Red Line and Green Line can depart differently due to technical glitches. From 2010, when 51 trains were in service, the line had a peak-hour capacity of 11,675 passengers per hour in each direction. As of September 2014, the Red Line operates 60 trains (train registrations 5001–5045, 5065–5079) The theoretical maximum design capacity is 25,720 passengers per hour, which would require 106 trains.

The Green Line had an initial capacity of 6,395 passengers per hour per direction, with 19 trains (train registrations 5046–5064) in service as of September 2014. The design capacity of this route is put at 13,380 passengers per hour with 60 trains in service. The Green Line is one of the two lines in the Dubai Metro network in Dubai. It runs through Deira and Bur Dubai, generally parallel to Dubai Creek. There are 20 stations on the line, spanning from e& (formerly Etisalat) to Creek covering 22.5km. It was built by a consortium of Mitsubishi, Obayashi, Kajima and Yapı Merkezi. There are two transfer stations, Union and BurJuman, where the Green and Red Lines intersect, allowing passengers to change between lines. The Green Line has its main depot in Al Qusais. The two terminal stations are e& and Creek.

In 2021, the Dubai Metro opened a new extension called the Route 2020. The stations of this expansion are National Paints (formerly Jabal Ali), Gardens, Discovery Gardens, Al Furjan, Jumeirah Gulf Estates, Dubai Investment Park and Expo 2020. Thats when a new train was added, the Alstom Metropolis (5101-5150). As of 2025, the Routes on Red Line are Centrepoint to Expo 2020, Centrepoint to Life Pharmacy (formerly UAE Exchange) and an exclusive peak hour route Centrepoint to Al Fardan Exchange (formerly Khail). The Green Line remains the same with e& to Creek metro stations. The Blue Line is scheduled to open on 2029.

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