Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has invited consultants to bid for the design contract for the Route 2020 extension.
The extended line will start from the Expo 2020 metro station and connect with Al-Maktoum International airport’s West Terminal.
The extension to the line will run for about 3 kilometres (km) and will feature two stations.
MEED understands that the invitation to bid was issued earlier in January with a submission deadline of mid-March.
The existing Route 2020 metro link is a 15km-long line branching off the existing Red Line at Jebel Ali metro station. The line comprises 11.8km of elevated tracks, 3.2km of tunnels, and has five elevated stations and two underground stations.
In 2016, the RTA awarded the AED10.6bn ($2.9bn) design-and-build contract for the project to a consortium of Spain’s Acciona, Turkiye’s Gulermak and France’s Alstom.
Dubai’s plans for its metro network do not stop with connecting the extension of the Route 2020 metro line to Al-Maktoum International airport. There are long-term plans for further extensions. More
