The Roads & Transport Authority kicks off the Public Transport Day in its 7th Edition on Tuesday (1 November) with a variety of events for all spectrums of the community including rich prizes. The idea of the day revolves around encouraging commuters to use more of public transport means spanning the metro, tram, public buses, and marine transit modes such as the waterbus and the water tax.
Abdullah Yousef Al Ali, CEO of RTA Public Transport Agency cum Chairman of Public Transport Day Committee, said, “The current edition of the event will also feature a contest named: Finding the Treasure. Here, 20 teams of RTA public transport users will be selected, each team comprising 3-5 individuals. To participate in the contest, each team has to work out a strategy for amassing the largest number of points as quick as possible in order to rank among the winners. Three winning teams will be named and rewarded in Dubai Ice Rink of the Dubai Mall; where other fun contests will be run on the Public Transport Day. Participants have to take Selfies with the name of the station on the background.
“The winning team will get 15,000 dirham, and the runner-up will walk away with 10,000 dirham, and the third place finisher will be given 7,000 dirham.
“There will be a fantastic array of events and activities of this year’s public transport day as the RTA has allocated a sum of 100,000 dirham for two winners (i.e. 50,000 dirham apiece) to be selected from the most frequent users of public transport means,” announced Al Ali.
The Public Transport Day initiative aims at highlighting the role of the Emirate in supporting efforts towards improving the environment, achieving sustainable development, encouraging residents to use mass transit means, and improving ridership levels. This requires raising the awareness of users about the benefits of public transport, and displaying RTA’s modern mass transit means including the metro, buses and marine transit modes. The event is also intended to step up the integration of mass transit modes, and boost the pioneering role of the Dubai Emirate in general and the RTA in particular in raising the profile of public transport means.
At the sidelines of the Public Transport Day’s festivities, the RTA will honor 50 cabdrivers from franchise companies operating under the tutelage of the RTA. The event is part of RTA’s annual Taxi Excellence Award for selecting the best drivers & franchise companies who will be awarded also in the Ice Rink of Dubai Mall.
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