Dubai Metro Fares
Jun 23rd 2009, 9:01 am
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If that is your only concern... the gold class ticket will go from 4 to 13 AED, so the demographic bothering you will not be seating close to you.
I do have more serious concern than the smell regarding the metro. We shall seat and see how it goes.
I do have more serious concern than the smell regarding the metro. We shall seat and see how it goes.
Jun 23rd 2009, 9:11 am
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an arab...que behind an indian??? whatever next....this will not do..
Jun 23rd 2009, 9:25 am
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you read my mind... i still remember trains and metros in Korea and China with people pushing like crazy to get in. here it will not be different, specially cause people value life even less (Insallah!). They are not use to this kind of transportation. I watched on TV an interview with the administrator of the new Qatar Museum. His point was that these people have never experienced a Museum before so they were coming with their picnic basket, bringing dogs, using bike and roller blades in the Museum, etc. There is a whole process of education and it will be the same for the metro.
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Jun 23rd 2009, 9:28 am
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you read my mind... i still remember trains and metros in Korea and China with people pushing like crazy to get in. here it will not be different, specially cause people value life even less (Insallah!). They are not use to this kind of transportation. I watched on TV an interview with the administrator of the new Qatar Museum. His point was that these people have never experienced a Museum before so they were coming with their picnic basket, bringing dogs, using bike and roller blades in the Museum, etc. There is a whole process of education and it will be the same for the metro.
Jun 23rd 2009, 10:24 am
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you read my mind... i still remember trains and metros in Korea and China with people pushing like crazy to get in. here it will not be different, specially cause people value life even less (Insallah!). They are not use to this kind of transportation. I watched on TV an interview with the administrator of the new Qatar Museum. His point was that these people have never experienced a Museum before so they were coming with their picnic basket, bringing dogs, using bike and roller blades in the Museum, etc. There is a whole process of education and it will be the same for the metro.
Jun 23rd 2009, 10:48 am
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if it has been only a bite... they were bringing their red plaid sheet and sitting their 3 wives and 15 children around a half a dozen picnic baskets...
BTW, a friend who has been to this museum said that it is really, really good.
BTW, a friend who has been to this museum said that it is really, really good.
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:19 am
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The museum or the food?
Jun 23rd 2009, 11:24 am
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Jun 23rd 2009, 12:05 pm
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what about the maid, driver, arse wiper etc..
Jun 23rd 2009, 12:18 pm
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wow...sheer ignorance...
i mean the arabs do travel a fair bit, and will probably have used metros elsewhere in the world...did you also know that there is a metro in dehli already....geez, maybe they will send the workers back to india for their metro training...eh??
i mean the tube in london is much worse - strikes due to skiving drivers who are caught playing squash, leaves on the line, Mind the Bloody Gap (which is so wide, there is not a hope in hell for less abled passengers to use the tube), and last but not least the stink with all the arm pits hanging in the air..
Bring on Dubai Metro any day...
i mean the arabs do travel a fair bit, and will probably have used metros elsewhere in the world...did you also know that there is a metro in dehli already....geez, maybe they will send the workers back to india for their metro training...eh??
i mean the tube in london is much worse - strikes due to skiving drivers who are caught playing squash, leaves on the line, Mind the Bloody Gap (which is so wide, there is not a hope in hell for less abled passengers to use the tube), and last but not least the stink with all the arm pits hanging in the air..
Bring on Dubai Metro any day...
Jun 23rd 2009, 12:30 pm
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wow...sheer ignorance...
i mean the arabs do travel a fair bit, and will probably have used metros elsewhere in the world...did you also know that there is a metro in dehli already....geez, maybe they will send the workers back to india for their metro training...eh??
i mean the tube in london is much worse - strikes due to skiving drivers who are caught playing squash, leaves on the line, Mind the Bloody Gap (which is so wide, there is not a hope in hell for less abled passengers to use the tube), and last but not least the stink with all the arm pits hanging in the air..
Bring on Dubai Metro any day...
i mean the arabs do travel a fair bit, and will probably have used metros elsewhere in the world...did you also know that there is a metro in dehli already....geez, maybe they will send the workers back to india for their metro training...eh??
i mean the tube in london is much worse - strikes due to skiving drivers who are caught playing squash, leaves on the line, Mind the Bloody Gap (which is so wide, there is not a hope in hell for less abled passengers to use the tube), and last but not least the stink with all the arm pits hanging in the air..
Bring on Dubai Metro any day...
and most of the Indians who are here have never put a feet in Dehli, except, maybe in the airport to come from their little villages to the construction site.
so... lets wait and see (I do agree with you in something... bring on Dubai metro any day)
Jun 23rd 2009, 1:39 pm
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Jun 23rd 2009, 2:22 pm
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i ****ing knew it. 1.80, 6.50
they can **** right off the profit gouging wankers.
IF they make the fare a nice round number I might consider using it, until then pah. well that and the fact that for my travel patterns its actually more inconvenient than convenient
I do have one question about the metro, why the **** is it like a bloody rollercoaster along SZR, I mean really would it have been so hard to have planned a little so the thing didnt go up and down like some deranged theme park ride..........
oh hang on I see what they did, it IS a deranged theme park ride
they can **** right off the profit gouging wankers.
IF they make the fare a nice round number I might consider using it, until then pah. well that and the fact that for my travel patterns its actually more inconvenient than convenient
I do have one question about the metro, why the **** is it like a bloody rollercoaster along SZR, I mean really would it have been so hard to have planned a little so the thing didnt go up and down like some deranged theme park ride..........
oh hang on I see what they did, it IS a deranged theme park ride
In general - depending on surrounding constraints - it ramps up at stations so that trains leaving a station get some gravity assistance (thereby saving energy) as they accelerate, and trains arriving at a station are slowed down as they travel uphill towards the station - again saving braking energy requried.
Elsewhere it's simply dodging existing infrastrucutre - roads, bridges and the like.
Could have built the whole thing 100ft in the air so it passed over every object in it's path....but that leads to cost issues, maintenance issues and customer access issues.
Comprende?
Agreed it looks bad. But presumably no one is planning on f'ing the thing.
Jun 23rd 2009, 2:36 pm
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In general - depending on surrounding constraints - it ramps up at stations so that trains leaving a station get some gravity assistance (thereby saving energy) as they accelerate, and trains arriving at a station are slowed down as they travel uphill towards the station - again saving braking energy requried.
Elsewhere it's simply dodging existing infrastrucutre - roads, bridges and the like.
Could have built the whole thing 100ft in the air so it passed over every object in it's path....but that leads to cost issues, maintenance issues and customer access issues.
Comprende?
Agreed it looks bad. But presumably no one is planning on f'ing the thing.
Elsewhere it's simply dodging existing infrastrucutre - roads, bridges and the like.
Could have built the whole thing 100ft in the air so it passed over every object in it's path....but that leads to cost issues, maintenance issues and customer access issues.
Comprende?
Agreed it looks bad. But presumably no one is planning on f'ing the thing.
oh and in all honesty can you say that they wont have "cost issues, maintenance issues and customer access issues" anyway
