UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stressed that the civilizational projects being implemented throughout the UAE are aimed primarily at ensuring the highest quality of life for all citizens living and living in the UAE, as well as serving both He is a visiting guest, following the highest standards and applying best practices in various fields.

His Highness pointed out that the distinguished development process witnessed in all emirates of the UAE stems from the keenness to improve all aspects of life in it, and to provide the best services to the UAE society in all its segments and components, and in line with the vision of development aimed at reaching the first place within the indicators of global competitiveness in all sectors This is supported by a set of quality projects that promote state leadership as a development model that focuses on the human being and seeks to ensure the highest levels of well-being.

This came on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the launch of «Dubai Metro», where he noted the importance of this achievement with its value and direct social impact and influential, saying: «Dubai Metro is an important pillar of our infrastructure, and a civilized project that serves the community and ensures the comfort of its members. The Roads and Transport sector is one of the most important sectors that reflect the progress of communities and encourage solutions that contribute to the lives of people, and our investments in this sector confirms our keenness to provide the best solutions for easy and safe mobility for all ».

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched the Dubai Metro on September 9, 2009, as the world's longest driverless metro project, one of the most important projects of the RTA in Dubai and the emirate's public transport system, which translates His Highness's vision for the future. It supports the development of Dubai as a global center for finance and business, in light of strengthening the foundations of the green economy, redoubling sustainable development efforts and adopting efficient and environmentally friendly solutions, so that the metro will achieve high success indicators according to the highest international safety standards. And operational efficiency To strictly adhere to flight schedules, and in the number of passengers that exceeded until the end of August last billion and 500 million passengers.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum expressed his delight at the achievements of Dubai Metro as a qualitative addition to the road and transport sector in Dubai, and a model for forward-looking projects with its advanced technology that is the first Arab and the latest in the world. `` We are not only monitoring global progress in all areas, but are keen to participate in the development of practical perceptions and leadership in implementing it.Our goal is to lead the way in making the future with our children's thinking, efforts and contributions. ''

His Highness added: “The metro's success in achieving the goals that we launched 10 years ago embodies our approach to embolden decision-making and adopt innovative solutions to pioneer the future. “We chose to implement the metro project because we found an addition that would serve people, facilitate their lives and provide them with a civilized way for safe and sustainable mobility.”

His Highness said: "In the last ten years, our investments in the roads and transport sector have reached nearly 100 billion dirhams, and we have laid a solid infrastructure and we will work to move soon, God willing, in the quality index from second place globally to first place."

His Highness the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai expressed his appreciation for the efforts of the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, and the projects and initiatives that have been provided during the past period, which contributed to the enhancement of the cultural face of the Emirate, and confirmed its ability to meet the steady growth movement witnessed in all sectors, He thanked all those who participated in the implementation of these projects and everyone who contributed thought or effort in transforming Dubai into a global model for modern modern cities that put the happiness and comfort of the community at the top of its priorities.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, inaugurated on September 9, 2009 at 9:09:09, the 52-kilometer Dubai Metro, which includes 29 stations, including four underground stations and 24 elevated stations. Two years after the operation of the Red Line, on September 9, 2011, His Highness inaugurated the 23-kilometer Dubai Metro Green Line, comprising 18 stations, including six underground stations and 12 elevated stations. The red and green lines are shared by the Union and Burjuman stations.

Mattar Al Tayer, Director General of the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), confirmed that the Dubai Metro project is one of the good ideas of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to provide world-class infrastructure that will make the city Dubai is a global center for finance and business.The idea is based on the conviction of His Highness the importance of the metro system in achieving the requirements of urban growth witnessed by the city, as he considered that the metro to be the backbone of the transportation system linking various vital areas in the emirate, and provides easy and safe movement of passengers, pointing to And his good to be the metro facilities at the highest level of sophistication and luxury.

He said that the great success of the Dubai Metro went beyond the borders of the emirate, reaching various countries of the world. Al Tayer said that the number of users of the Dubai Metro since its inauguration on September 9, 2009, until the end of last August, reached one billion and 500 million passengers, and the number of passengers has grown steadily, rising from nearly 39 million passengers in 2010 to 69 million passengers in 2011, and jumped The number of passengers with the launch of the Green Line in September 2011, reaching more than 109 million passengers in 2012, and continued to rise to nearly 179 million passengers in 2015, and the number of users of the metro continued to rise to exceed the barrier of 204 million passengers at the end of 2018, pointing out that Dubai Metro carries approximately 650,000 passengers a day, a record high that exceeds the expectations of the studies carried out when designing For a concrete project.

He added that these indicators confirm that the Authority is on its way to achieve its strategic objective to raise the proportion of trips by mass transport to 26% of the total number of trips by 2030, where it increased from 6% in 2006 to 17.5% in 2018, a cumulative annual increase of up to About 9.3% per annum, pointing out that the huge investments made by the Government of Dubai in the development of infrastructure for the mass transport sector, proved successful and effective, and contributed to support the development process witnessed in the Emirate.

Al Tayer said that Dubai Metro has achieved very high performance indicators during the last 10 years, with 99.7% of the accuracy of the schedule. The number of flights completed since its inauguration until the end of August reached approximately 2.384 million trips. 81 million and 133 thousand kilometers.

Vice President:

«The civilized projects implemented in the UAE guarantee the highest quality of life for everyone who lives on its land».

“Metro's success in achieving the goals embodies our approach to emboldening decision-making and adopting innovative solutions to lead the future.”

"Our projects start from where others have ended, and we offer inspiring models for the region to delight people and ensure their well-being."

“AED 100 billion of investment in roads and transportation in 10 years, and we continue to work to be the first in the world soon.”

Mohammed bin Rashid: Nothing in life is impossible if you can imagine

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said on his Twitter page: “Dubai Metro is an old dream of Dubai. I was ten with my father in London in 1959. "When he insisted on being in the cockpit of one of its trains, 50 years later, in 2009, it became a reality. There is nothing in life that is impossible if you can imagine it."

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Since its launch in September 2009, the metro has covered 81.133 million kilometers.

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One million passengers are carried by the metro per year by 2020, and 75 kilometers by metro route.

Path 2020

On 29 June 2016, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, awarded the award of the Masar 2020 project to extend the Dubai Metro Red Line from Nakheel Harbor and Tower to the Expo 2020 site. Expolink », which includes French, Spanish and Turkish companies at a cost of 10.6 billion dirhams. On September 5, 2005, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, laid the foundation stone for Masar 2020, marking the commencement of construction work on the 15-kilometer project, of which 11.8 kilometers above the surface level. Earth, 3.2 kilometers below ground level, houses seven stations.