Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has called metro passengers to the necessity of adhering to new preventive controls that the authority has put in place as part of the precautionary measures applied to limit the spread of the new Corona virus, as well as their attention to the starting times of recent flights from metro stations on the green and red lines on Fridays during the current period.
The new regulations stipulate that the elevators used to move between floors in the metro stations should be used for two people only, and that they are used for necessity only, and to give permanent priority to people of determination and wheelchair users, in addition to a number of precautionary measures previously applied by the authority that included daily sterilization of means of transportation And its stations, as well as determining the number of passengers on the same flight in all types of public transport.
The authority announced the dates of the last flights of Dubai Metro on Fridays during the current period, to be 10:20 pm from Etisalat station to Al Khor station on the green line, and at 10:25 pm in the opposite direction, while the date of departure of the last flight from Al Rashidiya station To UAE Exchange Station on the red line, at 9:55 pm in both directions.
The authority alerted users of public transportation to the need to plan the trip before leaving the house by looking at the latest information and learning about the available flight times through Sahil application, as well as going to metro or bus stations 30 minutes before the start of the trip in order to avoid the delay resulting from congestion due to the application of procedures Preventive.
The authority had started to implement a set of precautionary measures to ensure the safety of passengers and protect them from the transmission of the virus during public transport, including canceling the use of the bus stop button, so that the driver stops at all stations within the bus route.
The authority has identified three practices that passengers must adhere to when using public transportation such as metro, trams and buses, or while in its facilities and locations of their stations, including wearing face masks and hands gloves all the time, maintaining distance away from two meters from others, and keeping hand sanitizers in their possession in All trips.
The Dubai tram service and maritime transport services returned to work last Wednesday, after stopping the cruises for a period of more than six weeks, to resume maritime transport operations within specified times, except for tourist trips and transport trips within the Dubai Water Canal and cruise lines operated by the Public Transport Corporation between Dubai and Sharjah .
Reducing the number
Dubai Roads and Transport Authority reduced the number of passengers using buses, from 70 passengers per bus to 30 passengers, and reduced the number of Dubai Metro passengers by 78.4% in each train on all flights, as the number of passengers was reduced from 643 passengers to 138 passengers in Each of the Dubai Metro trains, as part of its implementation of a number of precautionary measures to limit the spread of the new Corona virus.