RTA awards contracts for creating 22 bus stations, depots

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded various contracts beneath a three-year plan to enhance 22 bus stations and depots (16 bus stations and 6 bus depots).

The venture covers finishing up infrastructural works on buildings, offering complete passenger services, passenger ready terminals, driver service places of work, bus in a single day parking areas, engine upkeep workshops, and devoted bus inspections and upkeep bays.

It will improve 16 stations, together with 9 stations at Deira and 7 in Bur Dubai – Mall of the Emirates, Sabkha, Jebel Ali, Al Quoz, Ibn Battuta, Hatta, Gold Souk, Al Qusais, Deira City Centre, Al Ghubaiba, Union, Al Satwa, Al Rashdiya, Abu Hail, Etisalat, and Al Karama.

The bus passenger terminals shall be renovated together with constructing facades, system infrastructure works shall be carried out, and prayer rooms shall be added at choose stations.

The venture covers additionally creating six bus depots at Al Khawaneej, Al Qusais, Al Ruwyyah, Al Aweer, Jebel Ali, and Al Quoz. These will see the revamping of inspection lanes, offering engine wash lanes, drainage system enhancements, flooring upkeep, and the set up of latest system infrastructure and rehabilitating public services.

In addition to offering drivers residential quarters at Jebel Ali and Al Quoz Depots, the scope of exterior works throughout all stations covers putting in visitors indicators & sidewalks, revamping exterior lights, infrastructure work for safety programs, redesigning the bus parking yards at 5 stations, and including preliminary take a look at zone at Al Khawaneej, Al Ruwyyah, and Al Aweer depots.

The enhancements are aimed toward establishing a welcoming and accessible surroundings for People of Determination, linking numerous transport modes and improvement initiatives, and surrounding points of interest by means of the event of first and last-mile necessities. By providing parts like public bus parking, biking lanes, pedestrian crossings, beautiful landscaping, and bike racks, RTA seeks to encourage strolling and utilizing of particular person mobility choices.