About Dubai Roads and Transport Authority
The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA**) is a local government body under whose aegis the transport infrastructure of Dubai is maintained and developed. Since its inception, the *Dubai Roads and Transport Authority* facilitated the entire process of planning, execution of transport projects, and traffic infrastructure development across the emirate.
The Authority aspires to construct integrated, sustainable, and high-quality transportation systems that will address the needs of a rapidly growing population and the millions of visitors that Dubai garners each year.
The RTA provides services that are varied and include the transport programs of Dubai, like the Metro, bus, tram, water taxi and ferry services. It also manages licensing processes, traffic administration, and the execution of strategic programs for smooth and safe mobility of all road users.
Under Director General and Chairman Mattar Al Tayer, the RTA has promoted innovation and collaboration to meet the demands of Dubai’s lofty urban development agenda.
Introduction To Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro station
The Burj Khalifa/ Dubai Metro Station, is a landmark in the notion of rapid transit. Just in the 1st month of 2010, the station had opened to give Downtown Dubai direct ingress to two of its eponymous sites, namely the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on Earth, and the Dubai Mall, purportedly one of the largest shopping and entertainment centers in the world.
This station has a stunning view and lies in a really strategic location for residents and tourists; it is located at the southern end of the interchange on Sheikh Zayed Road, Financial Centre Road, and Al Safa Street.
The Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro Station consists of one elevated concourse and two side platforms and, with critical transit points, passengers alight here for the Dubai Fountain or Address Downtown.
Over the years, the metro station is reckoned as one of the busiest in the city, the annual ridership numbers notwithstanding competing for the highest with the crossing of 10 million mark in the latest years.
How Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro station collaborate with Emaar
Thanks to an effusive collaboration between Dubai Roads Transport Authority, and Emaar Properties the very developer that has created some of Dubai’s most distinguished projects, such as the Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall- Emaar Properties- the Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Metro station has been improved vastly and has-to an extent-been expanded.
This symbiotic collaboration has come through for the so-called station infrastructure improvements and has ensured the ability to bear heavy passenger loads during massive public events spanning New Year’s Eve, national holidays, and big-time public gatherings. The joint efforts from Dubai Roads Transport Authority and Emaar Properties will witness a 65% enhancement at the station in terms of station size, elevation from 6,700 to 8,500 square meters, and transit density on an hourly basis from the current 7,250 to 12,320 passengers.
Future impact on Dubai real-estate
Thus, providing a stimulus for infrastructural public-private partnership will be the interaction between Dubai Roads and Transport Authority and Emaar Properties.
At the heart of such exercises is to ensure that an extension of the existing transport system allows new developments so that the citizens may live a better life, in the long term parallel to the greater vision of making Dubai a city-worthy of living in.
