Dubai’s biggest underground metro station, Jumeirah Golf Estates, to open on Sep 1

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has said that it will open Jumeirah Golf Estates Metro Station located on Route 2020 to the public on September 1, 2021.

The station will become the biggest underground station in the entire Dubai Metro network, including the Red and Green Lines.

The station covers an area of 28,700 square metres and extends 232 metres in height.

It can serve 11,555 riders per hour during peak times, and about 250 thousand riders per day.

It has two train-boarding platforms, four bus stops, 20 taxi stands to pick-up and drop-off riders, and 20 parking slots for the use of people of determination, in addition to 400 public parking slots free of charge in the surrounds of the station.

The facility has 14 outlets for investors over an area of 466 square metres, as well as four point of sale display areas for retailers.

Dubai Metro’s new 15-km long Route 2020 will open to the public in September, and was built at a cost of Dhs11bn.

Read: Video: Sheikh Mohammed inaugurates Dubai Metro’s Route 2020

Route 2020 – the third in Dubai, after the Red and Green lines – extends from Jabal Ali metro station on the Red Line to the Expo 2020 Dubai site. There is a transfer station at Jebel Ali linking Route 2020 and the Red Line.

There will be a total of 50 trains servicing the Route 2020, and they are expected to carry over 125,000 passengers daily.

Of the 15km track, 11.8 km is above the ground level, in addition to a 3.2km underground tunnel that extends from Al Furjan to the Green Community.