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There are no mainline railways in Oman, but some are planned, including links to adjacent countries. The narrow gauge Al Hoota Cave Train takes tourists into the cave complex on a journey of 4 minutes across a 400m distance. The estimated total length of the future Oman National Railway network is 2,135 km.
The Gulf Railway project was approved by GCC member states at the 30th GCC summit in Kuwait City in December 2009. [6] [7] Saudi Arabia was the only GCC country to have any railway infrastructure at the time the project was proposed. [8]
Railway stations in Oman include Maps. UN Map; Under construction (all 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ ...
Etihad Rail (Arabic: الاتحاد للقطارات) is the developer and operator of the United Arab Emirates's national railway network. It was established in June 2009 under Federal Law No. 2 to manage the development, construction and operation of the United Arab Emirates' national freight and passenger railway network. [1]
People spend 20 hours per week stuck in traffic (around 8.4% of their weekly time). [9] Dubai emirate comes in first place with 1.44 million vehicles per emirate, followed by Abu Dhabi with 0.98 million vehicles, then Sharjah with 0.46 million vehicles.
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The city has a car ownership rate of 541 cars per 1,000 population. This figure exceeds that of cities like New York City [444 cars per 1,000 population], London [345 cars per 1,000 population] and Singapore [111 cars per 1,000 population]. If this trend continues, then by 2020, there will be 5.3 million registered cars in Dubai. [3]
A fourth high-speed rail project proposed by the Karnataka government would run 485 kilometres (301 mi) from Mysuru (Mysore) through Bengaluru (Bangalore) to Chennai, cutting the current nine-hour travel time to three hours (45 minutes between Mysuru and Bengaluru) at a cost of ₹ 1.15 trillion (equivalent to ₹ 1.2 trillion or US$14 billion ...