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This question has been posed on this forum before -- how is Dubai going to move all the people around that they're expecting to fill all those skyscrapers that they're building?

It turns out, Dubai is actually planning a subway system. Good for them. I bet it will be fabulous. Here's an article I ran across in AME News:

9,000 men for Metro

United Arab Emirates: Monday, July 10 - 2006 at 08:09
9,000 men are working on the construction of Dubai's Metro system, reported Gulf News. At the current time, work is focusing on the diaphragm walls for the underground stations and then, from November, tunnelling work and viaduct construction will commence. A project official said that the design team for the Metro system included experts who had helped shape the interior for the Burj Al Arab and Dubai International Airport.

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From Gulfnews:

Dubai needs trams to beat the jams

French train manufacturer Alstom is offering its Citadis trams as a solution to traffic woes in rapidly- expanding Gulf cities like Dubai.

Some Alstom officials even draw parallels between the current congestion on Dubai's roads to traffic problems in a number of European cities after the Second World War, when "old-fashioned" tramways were dismantled to make way for "modern" car and bus transport networks.

Now trams are resurfacing not only to drive cars out of inner-city areas but as an efficient and environmentally-friendly system of urban transportation.