Dubai’s new Route 2020 to open in May 2020
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Dubai’s ‘Route 2020’ metro line expansion will be ready on May 20, 2020, five months before Dubai Expo 2020 kicks off in Dubai.
Dubai Media Office, which revealed the opening date in a Tweet, said the Route 2020 project covers the extension of the Dubai Metro Red Line by 15km from Nakheel Harbour & Tower Station to the site of Expo 2020 in Jebel Ali
It added that Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, has laid a foundation stone as the project construction continues.
In June, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced the award of a AED10.6 billion ($2.89 billion) contract to Expolink Consortium, led by French firm Alstom, Acciona from Spain and Turkish firm Gulermak to build the extension.
The transport authority said the project includes the procurement of 50 trains – 35 to upgrade the metro service and 15 for the Expo service.
Route 2020 is expected to serve about 125,000 passengers per day, with the number set grow to as many as 275,000 riders by 2030.
The trial run on the 15km route is expected to begin by the end of 2019.
The Route 2020 expansion see the opening of seven new stations – five elevated and two underground.
Passengers should be able to travel from Dubai Marina to the Expo2020 site in 16 minutes, officials claim.
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