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Article #5: Water-Buses To Help Reduce Dubai's Road Congestion

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Dubai's traffic congestion continues to have an advanced capacity, and therefore
remain one of the most prime concerns for some compromises will have to be made out
its planners and administrators. A very in its existing design. The traditional
significant number of freak collisions form of boat design, called Abra, has
taking place, daily occurrences of been followed in this region for years
traffic jams and an ill-educated mass of now. The new boat designs to be
drivers making one's life difficult on introduced will draw their outlook both
Dubai's roads, is how you could describe from Abra and modern techniques in equal
Dubai's traffic in few words. The terms. This deviation from Dubai's
administration on its own part has done heritage will have to be made acceptable
all it could to check this existing to the all concerned, so as to see the
malice out by building flyovers and planned bus service smoothly running.
underpasses, however the ever-growing Currently, there are several bridges and
population forces the problem to continue a solitary tunnel apart from Abra boats,
on. Several measures are being introduced which could be used to cross Dubai Creek
now to get the things on roads sorted on any usual occasion. However, boats
out, among these being the proposed provide a very conducive atmosphere for
introduction of additional water buses in making out the journeys as compared to
the Dubai Creek area from July later this the other methods. Structurally, Abras
year (2007). are open-air wooden ferries that could
The Creek is an inlet of the Arabian Gulf carry up to 20 passengers sitting across
that runs across the center where Dubai the length of boats on back-to-back
has been populated upon. People would benches. This leads to discomfort in the
benefit from any water bus service across summers however, as temperatures can
this watery passage, since the usual road reach up to 50C and humidity in the range
journeys demand extra time and efforts of 90-percent. The improvised fleet of
both. The road traffic will also have a water buses will now have a sitting
sigh of relief, since part of the daily capacity of 35 passengers, and they will
commuting, however small in entity it may be made fully air-conditioned.
be, will get dispensed elsewhere. The latest boats will be pressed into a
However, there are two significant loop water-bus service in the very first
aspects to be taken care of by the phase, with two stops on either side of
authorities and people both. One among the Creek receiving and sending buses on
these being the kind of boats that will every 10 minutes from 6am in the morning
get introduced, as the hot and humid to 12 at night. Gradually, these buses
weather of Gulf area can be truly will be extended up to New Dubai along
scorching in summers. Secondly, the the coastline, which includes Palm
objective of maintaining Dubai's cultural Islands and The World. This new
heritage has also to be kept in mind introduction of water-bus service is part
while introducing any new kind of boats. of the extended public transport system
Boats previously running across Dubai for Dubai's commuters, which aims at
Creek lacked in terms of advancement, but reducing the city's road congestion. The
they did have an ethnic Arabian outlook planned Metro Railways will also be
to be proud of. The latest announcement playing a crucial role in achieving these
raises some concerns therefore, as the objectives apart from the existing Abras
fresh boats to be inducted are going to and the just mentioned water-bus service.






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