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Gulf Business
14 hours ago
- Business
- Gulf Business
Eid Al Adha 2025: Dubai's RTA announces service hours during holiday
Image credit: WAM/Website Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the operating hours for all its services during the Eid Al Adha holiday for the Hijri year 1446H (2025). The timings apply to Customer Happiness Centres, public transport, paid parking zones, marine services, and technical testing centres. Read- Customer Happiness Centres All Customer Happiness Centres will remain closed during the Eid Al Adha break. However, Smart Customer Happiness Centres at Umm Ramool, Deira, Al Barsha, and the RTA Head Office will continue to operate 24/7. Technical testing centres Service provider centres offering technical testing will be closed from June 5 to 7 2025. Technical testing services will resume at select centres—Tasjeel Al Tawar, AutoPro Al Mankhool, Tasjeel Al Awir, Al Yalayis, and Shamil Muhaisnah—on Sunday, June 8. All services, including transaction processing, will resume across all centres on Monday, June 9, 2025, as per regular working hours. Dubai Metro Metro stations on both the Red and Green Lines will operate from Wednesday, June 4 to Saturday, June 7 2025, between 5:00am and 1:00am the following day. Dubai Tram Tram services will run from 6:00am to 1:00am (next day) from June 4 to 7, 2025. Public Buses (Dubai Bus) Holiday bus schedules will be available on the S'hail app. Note: Route E100 will be suspended from Al Ghubaiba Bus Station between June 4 and 8. Commuters can use E101 from Ibn Battuta Bus Station to Abu Dhabi. Route E102 will run directly from Al Jafiliya Bus Station to Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, bypassing Ibn Battuta and Musaffah. Marine Transport Marine transport service schedules can be accessed via the Public parking Parking will be free across public zones from June 5 to 8 2025. This excludes multi-level parking terminals, where normal charges will apply.
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- Climate
- South China Morning Post
Cool ideas in Ahmedabad help commuters beat intense Indian summer heat
For 20-year-old Mayank Yadav, riding a crowded bus during the summer months in a western Indian city can feel like sitting in an oven. Therefore, it is a welcome relief to step off the vehicle and into a bus stop equipped with sprinklers that provide a refreshing mist to overheated commuters. Rising heat is a problem for millions of people in India. In Ahmedabad, temperatures this year have already reached 42 degrees Celsius. City officials have implemented two solutions to help those affected the most. By painting tin-roofed households with reflective paint, they have reduced indoor temperatures, which otherwise might be up to 5 degrees Celsius hotter than it is outside. The city also hung water sprinklers and straw curtains at one bus stop so commuters could get relief from the sun. Officials plan to expand the idea to other bus stops in the city.
CBS News
4 days ago
- General
- CBS News
What are the red bus lanes in Pittsburgh? Here's what you need to know.
Red bus lanes are popping up in parts of Pittsburgh, and enforcement is underway. These new red lanes are for buses and emergency vehicles only. The exception is the striped parts in turning lanes. Starting on Friday, any driver stopped in the red lanes will be warned. After that, a driver will be ticketed. A ticket will run you $173. If you park in a red bus lane, your vehicle will be ticketed and towed. "It's convenient for people taking the bus, but what about the people who aren't?" John Thomas said This isn't a Pittsburgh problem. It's an issue everywhere. One woman KDKA spoke to on Friday is from Philadelphia. "A lot of people out here drive. I know we're in the city, but we need to make space for the drivers as well," Denim said. However, riders of the bus have a different perspective. "You'll see people in every neighborhood, they just stop wherever they want to instead of pulling aside. I think the bus needs to get where they're going," Denise said. Right now, it is the verbal enforcement period. But in the coming weeks, there will be actual enforcement.
Scoop
5 days ago
- Business
- Scoop
Passenger Numbers Up, Revenue Down For ORC's Public Transport
Bus passenger numbers across ORC's Dunedin and Queenstown Public Transport services continue to increase, but to a backdrop of falling revenue as NZ Transport Authority subsidies decline. For the first three quarters of the current financial year – covering from July 2024 to March 2025 – Dunedin passenger numbers rose by 4% to 2,611,577 trips and in Queenstown rose by 3% to 1,489,729 trips, says ORC's General Manager Regional and Planning Transport, Anita Dawe. 'We are really pleased that we continue to see a steady increase in patronage, especially as the removal of subsidies can create challenges for our public transport community. We're also seeing more older and younger people using our buses, especially on the Dunedin network,' she says. Fare revenue in Dunedin for the three quarters was down 8% to $3.11 million while in Queenstown revenue for the same period declined 6% to $2.42 million, Ms Dawe says. Using Dunedin as an example, Ms Dawe says in the six months to December 2023, there were 1.67 million passengers and the NZTA subsidy for that period was $602,819. However, for the six months to December 2024, there were 1.73 million Dunedin passengers, but the NZTA subsidy reduced by more than $443,000, to $159,069. The subsidy reductions are across public transport services around the country. Ms Dawe noted numerous NZTA subsidies ended in April 2024, including for free child (5-12), youth (13-18) and Youth Plus (19-25). She predicted that for the full year overall Otago bus patronage numbers will exceed the previous year, while year-on-year percentage growth will be lower because 2023-24 had a 'very high rate of growth' to better, she says. The Public Transport patronage and revenue data is being presented to ORC's Public and Active Transport Committee next Thursday (5 June) for noting. The full Agenda and report is now online, under Meetings on The Queenstown ferry operation saw a 6% decline in patronage to 55,829 passengers for the three- quarter period,while revenue was down 3% to $618, 984. Mrs Dawe notes the impact on the ferry revenue after its return to full fares was more keenly felt in dollar terms than on the bus services. On Total Mobility patronage, there was a 17% increase in patronage for the three-quarter period, rising to a total 105,996 trips. The trip costs are shared between the passenger, ratepayer and taxpayer.
BBC News
7 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Cramlington and Killingworth MP calls bus services 'unreliable'
A Labour MP has slammed bus services in her constituency as "unreliable" and "inaccessible".Cramlington and Killingworth's Emma Foody surveyed hundreds of constituents which found broad dissatisfaction with services in the in the House of Commons, Foody said the government's upcoming Bus Services Bill needed to put passengers "back in the driving seat".Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, said the bill would devolve more powers locally to improve transport options. "The villages and towns across my Cramlington and Killingworth constituency rely heavily on our bus services," Foody said."Despite this, my Big Bus Survey that I've been running recently shows that local people too often have found buses to be unreliable, inaccessible and they don't take them to the places they need to go." 'Affordable and reliable' Powell replied the Bus Service Bill will give local areas the power to have "affordable and reliable bus services".The bill will give local authorities control over routes, timetables, connections and fares, according to the Local Democracy Reporting will also lift the ban on councils establishing their own bus companies and ensure that lifeline bus services cannot be removed or changed without councils reviewing their ability to serve communities."I have seen what happens with local areas like mine in Manchester having those powers," Powell said."It has massively increased the number of people using bus services and has brought in extra funding from doing so."The Conservative Party has previously called on the government to explain how local authorities would fund the proposals. Follow BBC North East on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
