Dubai Roads and Transport Authority decided to extend the period of the Dubai Metro to continue to serve the public for 43 hours without interruption. The authority announced that the metro will operate from 5 am on Tuesday 31 December to 12 mid-January 2, to serve the pioneers of the festivals that will be organized in various locations of the Emirate of Dubai, after it was scheduled to work on New Year's Eve for 24 hours.
The Dubai Metro usually operates on regular days for 17 hours, from Saturday to Wednesday, from 5 in the morning until 12 in the middle of the night, while it operates 18 hours during Thursdays and Fridays, from 5 in the morning until 1 in the next day.
The Events Insurance Committee in Dubai yesterday set the paths for the arrival of members of the public to the Burj Khalifa area to attend the celebrations from the metro stations, where there will be 3 tracks, the first track from the Burj Khalifa station, and the second track will be from the Financial Center station, where a section will be allocated for families Heading to the Boulevard area, while the second section for singles is for the South Edge region, and the third track will be for those coming from Business Bay Station.
The Dubai metro will operate in all stations of the red and green lines to serve passengers celebrating the occasion. The authority also extended the metro's working hours on December 27 and 28 this is on the red line from Al Rashidiya station to DMCC station from 5 am to 3:30 am the following day, as well as in all stations of the green line from 5 pm: 30 in the morning until 3:30 in the following morning.
The metro is one of the most popular means of public transportation that has seen its use in transportation during major events and celebrations in the emirate. The most recent of these events was the Dubai Running Challenge, in which the metro transported the largest number of public transportation users. The metro was able during the period from four thirty in the morning until ten o'clock in the morning, nearly 60 thousand passengers who participated in the Dubai Running Challenge, as it was the main means in the movement of participants in the challenge to the site of the race establishment on Sheikh Zayed Road, where the proportion of their metro transport from The event reached 43%, while 38% of the participants arrived at the race site using private vehicles, compared to the remaining percentage that used taxis, or arrived to participate on foot.
It is noteworthy that the authority made it possible for arrivals and departures through Dubai International Airport who use the metro to be able to transport it and pass through its gates while carrying two travel bags, in order to facilitate them during peak travel days on the occasion of holidays.