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19 March 2024

No more Karama station on Dubai Metro Red Line, but...

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Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has joined the Dubai Metro’s corporate bandwagon, allowing Karama station on the Red Line to be named after the financial institution.

In a statement today, the RTA said that this step has rendered ADCB a key part of the development process that the Dubai agency seeks to materialise through the Metro project, which has contributed significantly to shifting the traditional concept of sponsorship and brands to a more advanced level of integration and comprehensive partnership in branding.

An agreement was signed with the ADCB in the presence of Abdullah Yousef, CEO of RTA Rail Agency, and Alaa Erekat, CFO of ADCB.

Abdullah Yousef, CEO of RTA Rail Agency, said: “The Dubai Metro Station Naming project is the first of its kind in the Middle East and is globally being hailed as the best practice worldwide. It is the world’s first revenue model for public transport infrastructure, which has now been emulated by other cosmopolitan cities such as Chicago, Boston, Houston, London, Delhi-Gurgaon, Philadelphia, Montreal and Rio de Janeiro, among others,” added the CEO of Rail Agency.

Other stations named after private or public firms on both the Red and Green Lines are Mall of the Emirates, Deira City Centre, Etisalat, Gulf General Investment Company (GGICO), Sharaf DG, First Gulf Bank, Nakheel, The Palm Deira, Nakheel Harbour & Tower, Dubai Airport Free Zone, Noor Islamic Bank, Burjuman Center, and Danube Company.