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Looks like they plan to have the blue line extension ready to go in 2029 mentioned in the embedded video not the article.
The plan is to have 55% of the population within 800 meters of public transportation stations by 2040.
A little bit old, but I always like to watch the video linked below: Youtube - Dubai Progress by MetroCucumber
Lmao. A post praising Dubai on fuckcars of all places. Dubai that uses trucks instead of a proper sewer system. Dubai that looks at American suburbia and goes “we want that.”
Uhm, I stay here and I want the public transport to get better, which it is. Except for my work, I can reach most of my points of interests already without a car.
There is a proper sewer system. I think you are probably referring to the Burj Khalifa's first 2 months when they had problems connecting it to the sewerage system, but that has already been done. There were other hiccups and needed to have a part of it upgraded, but it was connected to the sewerage system very closely after the opening.
Some of the buildings are inspired by buildings in America, but there are influences from all around the world.
Oh damn! Thanks for the clarification about the Burk Khalifa. I still see memes about the poop trucks to this day!
You should get better informed. Dubai is expanding its metro with extensions and new lines, nothing like any US suburb. I don’t know why any mention of Arab cities or countries brings out the worst in some people.
If me and my gay husband lived there we’d be tortured and dead. I’m informed enough thanks
And no that doesn’t have anything to do with fuckcars, I just felt like it 🏳️🌈🌈✌️
Edit: fuck cars, fuck places like Dubai who pretend to be soo holier than thou but really are literal shit-beaches, fuck homophobic religions, governments, and people…
…and fuck some three day old account coming here to lie. Wanna stir some shit, Du-bai-felicia? Go visit the beach 💅
Someone is being toxic.
Thanks for showing us who you are :)
Sweetie, if ya come to a place called FUCK CARS and expect people to be nice to ya then maaaybe your expectations aren’t super realistic
I agree with "Fuck Cars", I never expected it to be "Fuck the commenters".
I hope my city becomes more like Dubai
A hellscape?
Yee, with lots of racism, homophobia, slavery and other fun stuff.
Me too. I'm from Jeddah, a 2500 year-old city yet less known than Dubai.
It is interesting that they are going perpendicular from the coast instead of just parallel with these extensions. I felt like a lot of the current set-up to Dubai's non-bus mass transit was to severe the luxury development.
Dubai expands in both directions. It actually has a short coast line that warranted building additional coast. There will be more lines in the future too.
I have only recently gone to Dubai Creek and the traffic in and out of there was really bad. I think they are targeting the highest chance of ridership first. I think the people going towards Sharjah is probably going to be the most numerous.
Personally I am more interested in the parallel line to Al Maktuom Airport, but I guess the ridership will be too little now.
UAE has done a good job transforming their country away from fossil fuels and I hope Saudi Arabia follows