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1.3m every year, 3,500 a day, 150 per hour and nearly three people get killed on the street every minute across the world. The Dubai Police has set an ambitious goal to decrease road death to zero by 2020.
Speed limits on Dubai roads — both internal as well as highways — would be revised according to a new manual to be released by the end of June, Khaleej Times has learnt. A special team at the RTA's Traffic and Roads Agency (TRA), in association with Dubai Police, has been studying various proposals to enhance road safety over the past year
Under the auspices and in attendance of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) celebrates on Wednesday February 10th the winning companies and organizations of the 2nd Dubai Award for Sustained Transport (DAST) 2009.
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Schoolboys hit by bus remain in intensive care
Rasul Syed Mirza Ghalib, the principal of the school in Al Nahda area, said the driver had switched on the ignition so that he could cool off the bus with the air conditioning, not realising that the vehicle was in gear. The bus lurched back and hit the children, he said.
Dubai's RTA lifts 346.5m passengers in 2011
A total of 346.5 million passengers used public transport in Dubai last year, Mattar Al Tayer, chairman and executive director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced. The passenger figures compared with 332 million passengers lifted in 2010, a 4.3 percent rise, according to the figures released by the RTA's statistics section.
Great fog escape: Dubai traffic survives zero-visibility conditions with no major accidents
In previous foggy conditions, several accidents have occurred most of them serious with critical injuries. However, till noon, amazingly and thankfully, only one accident was reported to the Traffic Department of Dubai Police. The accident took place in Dubai Investment Park at 8am.
School transport in Dubai is safe, RTA says
School buses in Dubai adhere to the highest safety standards, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) says. As many as 131,000 pupils in Dubai use school buses daily, served by more than 5,000 buses.
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