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Govt mulls AC bus stations to save people from heat
DUBAI — Bus commuters will no longer have to brave harsh weather to commute in public transport buses, as two completely air-conditioned bus stations will soon be built in Dubai. Abdul Aziz Malik, director of the department, told Khaleej Times yesterday that the Dubai Municipality is working on building two completely air-conditioned bus stations.
“The two bus stations — one to be located in Karama and the other in Al Quoz — will be built from private investments, and the project is currently in the tendering stage,” Malik said, adding that the project would be completed next year.
He said the move, depending on its success, could turn out to be the beginning of an initiative to convert other open bus stations into comfortable facilities for commuters who brave the harsh weather every summer. Of the two new stations, the one in Karama would be smaller owing to reasons of space, while the one in Al Quoz will be much bigger, Malik added.
The same conversion cannot be carried out on bus stops due to technical reasons, but the civic body is working on redesigning the existing bus stops to make them more informative and comfortable, Malik said, adding that the Dubai Municipality would involve private companies in this project. “The space involved (in a bus stop) is too small to justify huge investment, and there would always be the risk of people abusing the facility. We are studying it for the moment anyway,” he said.
According to Malik, the bus fleet of the department would see an increase of around 90 buses in 2005, bringing the total number of vehicles to around 600. He said that the number of buses in the fleet would increase only if the number of commuters increase, which presently is a whopping 12 per cent per annum.
Commenting on the ongoing surveys being conducted on board the department’s buses, Malik revealed that the collection of data would be complete by the latter part of November 2004, and depending on the results of the data analysis, routes, timetables, and frequencies of the service would be restructured. The move to revise and modify the 55 routes is mainly centred around the Dubai Rail Project, to which the public transport system would act as a ‘feeder’.
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