DUBAI // Ghubaiba, the main inter-city bus station, will operate around the clock during Ramadan, the Roads and Transit Authority (RTA) has announced.
And subsidiary stations at Union Square, Sabkha, Deira City Centre and Karama will start services at 5.30am and run to midnight.
City bus services will be provided throughout the week and the main stations at the Gold Souq and Ghubaiba will be open from 5.10am until 11.50pm.
Stations at Al Qusais, Satwa and Al Quoz will operate from 5.30am to 11.45pm, while Jebel Ali Station will be open from 6am to 9.30pm. Times for Metro feeder stations, such as Rashidiya, Mall of the Emirate, Ibn Battuta, Burj Khalifa and Etisalat, are 5.15am to 12.15am.
External stations at Sharjah (Jubail-Bur Dubai) will also run 24 hours, while the Abu Dhabi Station operates from 5am to 11.55pm. Times for Hatta station are 5.30am to 9.30pm, and Fujairah station from 5.50am until 9pm. Ajman station will open from 5.30am to 9pm.
In Dubai, the Metro Red Line will run from 5.30am to 1am on Thursday and 1pm to 1am on Friday. From Saturday to Wednesday, the trains will operate from 5.30am to midnight.
On the Green Line, stations will be open from 5.50am to midnight Saturday to Wednesday, and Thursday from 5.50am to 1am. On Friday, the hours are 1pm to 1am.
Paid parking will apply in all car parks coded A and B, except the Fish Market and Tecom Zone and Knowledge Village, from Saturday to Thursday, from 8am to 1pm and from 7pm to midnight.
Parking fees will be activated in the Fish Market car parks coded E throughout the week, from 8am to 1pm and 4pm to 11pm.
Tecom and Knowledge Village parking coded E will be for a fee from 8am to 6pm from Saturday to Thursday.
Fees will be in place in multi-level parking at all hours.
For transit information, RTA customer service centres in Umm Al Ramool, Al Barsha, Deira and Karama will be open from 9am to noon, and Tawar, Manara, Awir and Jumeirah centres will operate from 9am to 6pm.
The Water Bus at the Dubai Creek station will operate from 8am to midnight and at 4pm, 8pm and midnight from Marina Mall station.
At Ghubaiba and Festival City, the times are 4pm to midnight.
The Dubai Ferry from the Marina Mall is operational from 11am to 5pm, and again at 6.30pm. Ghubaiba station will operate at 11am.
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Bert van Marwijk factfile
Born: May 19 1952
Place of birth: Deventer, Netherlands
Playing position: Midfielder
Teams managed:
1998-2000 Fortuna Sittard
2000-2004 Feyenoord
2004-2006 Borussia Dortmund
2007-2008 Feyenoord
2008-2012 Netherlands
2013-2014 Hamburg
2015-2017 Saudi Arabia
2018 Australia
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2001/02 Uefa Cup, Feyenoord
2007/08 KNVB Cup, Feyenoord
World Cup runner-up, Netherlands
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Navdeep Suri, India's Ambassador to the UAE
There has been a longstanding need from the Indian community to have a religious premises where they can practise their beliefs. Currently there is a very, very small temple in Bur Dubai and the community has outgrown this. So this will be a major temple and open to all denominations and a place should reflect India’s diversity.
It fits so well into the UAE’s own commitment to tolerance and pluralism and coming in the year of tolerance gives it that extra dimension.
What we will see on April 20 is the foundation ceremony and we expect a pretty broad cross section of the Indian community to be present, both from the UAE and abroad. The Hindu group that is building the temple will have their holiest leader attending – and we expect very senior representation from the leadership of the UAE.
When the designs were taken to the leadership, there were two clear options. There was a New Jersey model with a rectangular structure with the temple recessed inside so it was not too visible from the outside and another was the Neasden temple in London with the spires in its classical shape. And they said: look we said we wanted a temple so it should look like a temple. So this should be a classical style temple in all its glory.
It is beautifully located - 30 minutes outside of Abu Dhabi and barely 45 minutes to Dubai so it serves the needs of both communities.
This is going to be the big temple where I expect people to come from across the country at major festivals and occasions.
It is hugely important – it will take a couple of years to complete given the scale. It is going to be remarkable and will contribute something not just to the landscape in terms of visual architecture but also to the ethos. Here will be a real representation of UAE’s pluralism.