Dubai: Passengers using The Palm Monorail in Dubai can now get on and off at the newly-opened Al Ittihad Park Station for easy access to Palm Jumeirah’s central park.
The station also gives access to thousands of residences and the Golden Mile Galleria mall, master developer Nakheel announced on Monday.
Located at the heart of The Palm’s Al Ittihad Park, the station is a stone’s throw from The Golden Mile and within easy reach of The Shoreline Apartments.
Around a million people already use The Palm Monorail each year. The monorail will soon have separate stations at upcoming developments such as the Nakheel Mall and The Pointe.
The number of Palm Monorail users has risen by 70 per cent in the last four years.
According to Nakheel, in 2013 there were 590,000 passengers, with 685,000 in 2014, almost 878,000 in 2015 and a million in 2016.
With around 3,000 people now taking trips each day, the mega developer expects the number of passengers in 2017 to top 1.1 million.
The Palm Monorail, which opened in 2009, currently runs from Gateway Station to the Atlantis Hotel’s waterpark, stopping at the new Al Ittihad Park Station in between. Trains run every 11 minutes, from 9am until 10.30pm daily.
