Dubai has unveiled plans for a 30-kilometre Blue Line metro extension, with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announcing the launch of operational works.
The Blue Line will run 30 kilometres, with half of the route underground, and will feature 14 stations. The line is expected to serve one million people and reduce traffic congestion across the city by 20 per cent upon completion.
“10,000 employees and engineers racing against time,” Sheikh Mohammed wrote on his official X account, noting a budget of AED 20 billion allocated to deliver the Blue Line by September 9, 2029.
A further AED 34 billion has been set aside for the Gold Line, bringing the combined investment in Dubai’s metro expansion to AED 54 billion. Sheikh Mohammed described the two lines together as the effort “to complete the world’s newest and most beautiful metro.”
The metro expansion forms part of a broader infrastructure programme that Sheikh Mohammed said would “reshape the new Dubai.” Projects under development include a new global airport, transport lines, a redeveloped International Financial Centre, and digital government infrastructure driven by artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies.
“We will launch many more projects in the coming months,” Sheikh Mohammed said, adding: “We are the world’s most future-ready city. Whoever bets on Dubai bets on the future.”
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