One fault in 53,620 journeys on the Dubai Metro
Mattar Al Tayer, the executive director of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has revealed that the fault rate on the Dubai Metro is one single fault per 4 million kilometers travelled by the metro. With the total length of track for the Metro at 74.6km, you would have to travel 53,620 times before your train broke down. […]
69 million passengers rode the Dubai Metro in 2011
Mattar Al Tayer, the executive director of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has revealed that the fault rate on the Dubai Metro is one single fault per 4 million kilometers travelled by the metro.
With the total length of track for the Metro at 74.6km, you would have to travel 53,620 times before your train broke down.
Al Tayer added that there is also one fault in one metro car every 800 thousand kilometers.
According to the RTA, the rate is considered as excellent when measured by the standards of modern trains’ faults worldwide.
Al Tayer revealed the figures at the Control Center and Trains Maintenance and Cleaning Workshop at the Metro’s Jebel Ali depot. The depot has a capacity to house 40 trains and the workshop carries out internal cleaning of 20 trains and body washing of eight trains per day.
The Dubai Metro first opened in 2009 and the RTA said recently that the system hosted 69 million passengers in 2011.