Video ... the first child to ride the metro in Dubai in 2009 coincides with the launch of Route 2020
Emirates Today met Al-Reem Tariq Al Rasasi, the first child to travel on the Dubai Metro trains when it started operating on the Red Line on September 9, 2009, during the field monitoring for the first hours of the opening of the Route 2020 stations, which began operating at 10 am Jebel Ali Metro Station.
Roads and Transport Authority sources in Dubai confirmed to "Emirates Today" that Al Reem is the first child to use the metro in 2009.
Al-Reem, who is now in the eleventh grade, said that she is very happy with the opening of the track, and that she is proud and proud of the metro construction project in the Emirates. It is a great pleasure to travel around the city on the metro trains.
Reem's mother, who was accompanying her with a number of her family members who came to accompany the event and celebrate the start of the track, said that Al-Reem had always had a passion and intense love for trains since her childhood, which made her insist on riding it and waiting for the first trip to the metro in 2009, to be the first He travels the subway at the time
Al-Reem and her family traveled on the metro along the four stations that were operational today on the track, reaching Al-Furjan station.
Families have flocked from the areas adjacent to the new stations, at a time when the Jebel Ali transit station between the Red Line and Route 2020 line provides passengers with access from various metro stations on the red and green lines extending all over the city of Dubai.
"Emirates Today" monitored active movement at Jebel Ali station since the first moments of the track’s opening, and the movement gradually increased significantly, although it was a holiday morning and a night of New Year’s celebrations.
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