The Dubai metro is getting another line: The purple line will connect Dubai International Airport with yet to build Dubai World Central International Airport. But this connection will also be provided by the blue line that was announced some time before. The difference is: the purple line will establish an express connection between the two airports, while the blue line will have more stops in business and residental districts and consequently takes longer for the distance.
In other Dubai Metro related news, Gulf News and Dubai Metro are handing out water and chocolate in order to make the public aware of the new metro system. Over at secret dubai diary, this gets not much understanding – the metro is more than three years away, afterall. But read the comments of the Metromania article and it makes much more sense: Dubai people are unlikely to step out of their cars, unless they are literally kicked out. So, it might indeed be a good idea to start now…
