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Green Line work to start soon
The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has awarded contract for the Green Line and the construction will start soon.
- By Ashfaq Ahmed, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:34 May 3, 2009
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Dubai: The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has awarded contract for the Green Line and the construction will start soon.
The Green Line - which is 17.6km-long - will have 14 station and will be operational in March 2010. It will have 7.6km underground track and 10km of elevated track. "The Dh5.7 billion Green Line contract has been awarded to the contractor who is building the Red Line," said Adnan Al Hammadi, Director of Construction of the Dubai Metro at the RTA. The contractor for the Dubai Metro is Dubai Rapid Link (DURL) consortium headed by Mitsubishi Corp of Japan.
"The construction on the Green Line will put more constrain on the authority and the residents as it will be carried out in the busy Central Business Districts of Deira and Bur Dubai," said Al Hammadi.
He said the major construction activity will start in January next year with the start of the tunnelling work. The tunnel boring machine will arrive in November and the tunnelling will start in January from Union Square station to Burjuman Centre Station.
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