HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has inspected work progress on the extension of Dubai Metro to the Expo 2020 site.
Route 2020 will stretch for 15 km from Nakheel Harbour & Tower Station to the site of Expo 2020.
Al Tayer inspected the Concrete Batching Yard where concrete segments of the metro viaduct are produced together with supporting pillars of a diameter ranging from 2.2m to 2.6m. The visit also included the sites of several metro stations.
Al Tayer attended to a briefing from Abdul Rida Abu Al Hassan, Executive Director of Rail Projects Planning & Development at RTAs Rail Agency and several engineers about the work progress in the project in which completion rate has clocked 7 percent.
More than 200 piles have been inserted at depths ranging from 25 m to 30 m at Expo and Al Furjan sites. More than 20 pillars of about 7 meters in height have been cast.
Al Tayer toured the site of Expo Station, characterized by an aeroplane wing inspired design. He also toured the site of Jumeirah Golf Estates Station, one of the underground stations.
The final station in the visit was Nakheel Harbour & Tower Station, the interchange station between the Red Line and Route 2020.
Casting the pillars of the metro viaduct is a landmark achievement in the progress of the project works. This step marks the emergence of the project components, rendering it visible to road users and residents of the neighborhood, said Al Tayer.
Route 2020 extends about 15 km from Nakheel Harbour and Tower Station on the Red Line, comprising 11.8 km as an elevated track and 3.2 km as an underground track.
It has seven stations, including an interchange station, one station at Expo site, three elevated stations and two underground stations.