A poll conducted by the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) hours ago on its account on the Tottier platform showed that the Dubai Metro is still the most used means of transportation by public transport passengers during the current period, despite the authority’s implementation of strict preventive measures to limit the spread of Covid 19 and ensure safety Passengers, due to which metro agents have to wait in rows, ensure their physical distance while entering stations and trains.
About 66% of the respondents confirmed that they prefer to use the Dubai Metro to travel in the city, compared to 15% who preferred public buses, and 14% chose taxis as their preferred method, while 5% of the respondents indicated their preference for marine transportation means of transportation.
The results were also similar for the participants in the poll published in the Arabic language, as about 66% of the respondents confirmed that the Dubai Metro represents their preferred means of transportation, so that taxis occupy the second place as 19% chose them as the first means of transportation, compared to 8% chose public buses, and 6% Vote for marine transportation.
The Executive Director of the Public Transport Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, Ahmed Behroozyan, told "Emirates Today" this month that the application of strict health measures to ensure the safety of users of public transport needs an additional time in excess of the time normally required for passenger flights on the metro, Which prompted the authority to implement some scenarios to reduce the waiting period of passengers and not delay them, whether during their travel on the metro or on public buses, which includes reducing the time of distillation between metro trips and public buses, as well as increasing their number to accommodate a larger number of passengers while maintaining safety distances between them during Trips.
And the Dubai Metro has occupied the first rank for years in terms of the number of passengers using it annually compared to other public transportation means, as the Dubai Metro acquired the largest percentage of the number of users of mass transportation and joint transportation during the past year, at a rate of 34%, as taxis came in the rank The second by 30%, and public transport buses came third, by 26%. According to the data issued by the authority, the number of Dubai Metro users in red and green lines reached 203 million passengers in 2019, and Burjuman and Al Etihad stations, which are joint stations on the red and green lines, took the largest share in the number of Dubai Metro passengers during the year 2019. Last year, 157 million passengers, and the number of users of maritime transport, which includes abras, water bus, water taxi and Ferry Dubai, reached 14.36 million passengers last year.
Reports and studies conducted by the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai indicate that the mass transit system in Dubai has become a major artery in the movement of people in various regions of the Emirate of Dubai, and that it has been able to bring about a change in the culture of the population with its various segments towards the use of public transport, as the population began They realize the benefits and advantages of using mass transit in terms of health and economics, especially with the high level of safety, and reduce the costs of using vehicles from fuel, vehicle maintenance, and others. The Authority’s reports emphasized the increase in the percentage of flights traveled by mass transportation and joint transportation from less than 6% in 2006 to 18.1% in 2019, i.e. a cumulative annual increase of about 8.86% annually.