His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said that the Dubai Metro is an old dream of Dubai.
His Highness explained in his account on the social networking site "Twitter" saying: "Dubai Metro .. old dream of Dubai dreams .. I was ten years with my father in London in 1959 when he insisted to be in the cockpit of one of its trains ... Fifty years later in "It became a reality ... There is nothing in life impossible if you can imagine it."
This came on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the launch of "Dubai Metro", which was launched by His Highness on the ninth of September 1999, as the world's longest metro project without driver, and one of the most important projects of the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai and the mass transit system in the emirate, which translates the vision In line with the efforts to strengthen the foundations of the green economy and to double the efforts of sustainable development and the adoption of efficient and environmentally friendly solutions, the metro will achieve high success indicators according to the highest international safety standards and operational efficiency. Yeh to strictly adhere to flight schedules, and in the number of passengers, which exceeded the number until the end of last August, one billion and 500 million passengers.