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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