Today, 11 out of 29 stations are operating, and in late April there will be 18. The remaining eleven stations of the red line are planned to be commissioned before the end of this year. RTA has not set exact dates yet.
It was also decided to postpone the opening of the second, green line of the Dubai Metro to August 2011. The 23-kilometer line, with 18 stations and a parking complex for 3,000 cars in the AlGuseys area, was supposed to begin work in March 2010. The delay in the work on the project is due to the fact that the estimated cost of the project turned out to be almost half the real one: 28 billion dirhams of expenses (US $ 7.8 billion) against the planned 15.5 billion dirhams of the plan (US $ 4.3 billion).
Work on the project, suspended by contractors in January, was fully resumed last week, after receiving guarantees from the Dubai government.
