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Dubai: a busman’s holiday for transport planners

Chris Oldham
17 March 2017
Dubai: the six-lane E11 road parallels a Metro line
Dubai: the six-lane E11 road parallels a Metro line

 

A recent holiday in Dubai provided a fascinating opportunity for observations about their transport, which may interest some readers.

The city is a concrete jungle with the highest number of skyscrapers in the world, and building work still in progress on more of them. It is a city of excess: for example, if you stood the Eiffel Tower on top of the Empire State building, Dubai’s iconic and stunning Burj Khalifa would still be taller by a good couple of hundred feet.

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