Maybe it should "The Metro departs in style" 'cos it looks like Japan to me. Anyway, nice to see what the trains will look like (if you are into that sort of thing) but the colour scheme doesn't look very inspired.

Does anybody think it will be so successful that passengers will need to stand or will 104 seats be more than enough?

in a word, NO

Looks like the loading operation to me.
Those dockworkers look japanese (from the way they are dressed).

you mean in proper safety shoes and hats!

I'd've thought that the people most likely to use it on a daily basis will be those whose home and work are both within easy summer walking distance (a couple of minutes at the most) of a station. For anyone else, it'll be complete waste of time as a commuter system, unless they're building massive car parks at each station.

For example, I have friends who live in Bur Dubai, within (relatively) easy walking distance of what will be the BurJuman station. But they work in Media City, so how are they supposed to get from the TECOM Metro station across to the other side of SZR? They won't bother, they'll just stay in their nice air-conditioned car, and who can blame them? And yet, they're the kind of people the RTA needs to get off the roads to reduce congestion.

For us, I can only see the Metro being useful for getting into Bur Dubai and Deira at weekends and in the evening, assuming that we want to go somewhere that's close to a station.

Is that no it won't be successful or no 104 seats won't be enough?

sort of. Mean the spats over the boots and the type of hard hats.

I've done a lot of these types of shipments in the past. Looks like a fairly old vessel probably danish owned and not with particularly strong cranes as they have had to combine the two cranes in a Gemini lift.

the former, Gareth I agree with you

Maybe it is the start of a properly integrated public transport system. Don't laugh, we can hope....

One would hope, but the only way I can see it working would be like in Montreal where climate controlled pedestrian walkways link apartment buildings, malls and leisure venues to the subway... So maybe Dubai's first mistake was building above ground.... Can't imagine that overground air-conned walkways would be sightly, practical or well insulated...

People cope if it makes their life easier.

See HK in the summer...public transport is rammed.

Making it properly integrated and having disinsentives to using the car are the key. In all honesty, I think this is what Shk Mo wants

So you reckon when it's finished we will get "Ibn-Salik" charges that make driving uneconomical???

either that or they'll do what they do in the UK... start charging a fortune to drive in the hope that people will use public transport as an alternative...

of course the problem then is that more people want to use public transport so to cope here, instead of investing money into more trains etc, they just increase the ticket costs in the hope people will go back to using their cars. saying that though I can't see them charging $45 a day just to travel into the city

The London underground and public transport in the capital has improved immeasurably in the past four years....seriously.

As a regular visitor back home I have seen the improvement.

Fares have gone up only for cash buyers as far as I know. Oyster Card holders get much cheaper travel

we will probably go on it as a bit of a tourist attraction type thing....once