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Burj Dubai AnimationWell, schools are opening, people are back from vacations, and hell is loose once again on the roads of Dubai and linking emirates. Since last week, if you want to get to work on time, you will have to subtract another half hour from your departure time from home. Some easy ways of navigation help to navigate through traffic and should help you squeeze your way to work in time:
1. Identify chronic bottle-neck areas and try to avoid them by taking linking routes.
2. If you're thinking of changing lanes, make sure you gain a pace of atleast 2 cars by doing so. Mostly, we see a lane progessing and move to that lane but the next minute, we're even behind the spot where we were.
3. If you know totally alternative routes, time them! There would be days when particular routes are most efficient.
4. Try and avoid getting stuck in a 'mesh' of traffic (where you have no choice but to keep following the same lane).
5. Some 'usual' routes are good to avoid - for example: People usually take the Al-Mullah underpass while entering Dubai. Trust me, it is ALWAYS better to take the signal unless the underpass is totally free-flowing.
6. Identify patches of lane that are slow or fast. Every lane, during the course of a route, will have patches where it will either speed up, or be entirely blocked. They mostly follow a pattern over particular days. All you need to do is to switch to the correct lane on time and you're home free!
7. Once you catch up speed, or get to a less-crowded patch of the road, watch out for "boxed" formations. Avoiding boxes and looking for "zip" spaces to overtake multiple cars at a time will definitely help.
These simple, yet effective ways might take a couple of days or weeks to get used to, but they really help in the long run.
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(khayra-b on Sep 6, 2006 2:13 AM) How about "use your blinkers" or "be courteous"? Another favorite of mine is "don't slow down to watch someone change their tires"
(Dubai guide on Sep 11, 2006 1:46 PM) I used to drive from Sharjah to Dubai in peak hours through emirates road. My small suggestion is "If there is jam packed traffic, then better to keep right most line (slow track). That will move better, becuase people will take right exit and go often. If there is a mild traffic better to keep fast line. No traffic then keep middle line, so no hindrance for fast drivers."
The Dubai streets turned to gold yesterday morning!
Hundreds thronged to collect what appeared to be tiny gold balls scattered by the roadside behind Al Baraha Hospital in Deira yesterday morning.
The news sent a frenzy of people rushing to collect as many golden balls as possible.
Later in the day, Dubai police personnel reached the spot and asked the people to disperse.
Anybody came across the incident?
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Or not quite so glorious now, given the heat and dust. Anyone wanting bluer skies should visit in late autumn/early winter.
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(Zain on Aug 17, 2006 5:11 PM) When I saw the picture, I thought wow how beautiful but when I read the text, I was like WTH?????????? Its raining in Karachi heavily... I am loving it..
(Farrukh Ahmed on Aug 17, 2006 7:52 PM) Nice pic! I'm at the airport about to boar a flight to good ol' Karachi!!!!! just wanted to check up at the dubai blog for the last time before i checked out! Karachi seems to be in a continous state of heavy rains......... will bring back my share of experience and stories. Good bye Dubai Karachiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii here I Come!!!!
(rafey on Aug 17, 2006 10:59 PM) nice pic ...well sure it looks like now a days there loads of dust there in dubai ....foggy weather(when u cant c things properly)
(rafey on Aug 17, 2006 11:02 PM) yeah rite it is raining heavily out there in karachi and therefore many roads r block ....n now u have to drive like 2 hours intead of half or 1 hour.But yeah the weather is quite pleasant.
SCHILLER / "NACHTFLUG" LIVE VERSION 2006Gulf News has posted this article today on lion cubs being kept as pets in a one-bedroom apartment.
Five lion cubs and a cheetah are being kept in a family flat in the northern emirates until they get moved to a farm.
According to the owner, the animals have been brought in from Africa and Oman and will only spend two weeks in the residential one bedroom home until they are relocated to a bigger space on a private farm.
The flat houses at least five lions two males and three lionesses, one cheetah; a number of turtles and according to neighbours a hyena has also been spotted. The animals have keepers with them 24 hours a day.
The lions are all together in one room. Two lions are usually kept inside individual cages and two other lionesses are attached to the outside of the cage, while the youngest is left to walk freely around the flat. A cheetah was seen by Gulf News in a separate cage in the same room.
The lions eat a lot and get very hungry. The owner said he feeds them one sheep everyday.
The question is: Why isnt the authorities doing anything about it? How can wild cats be allowed as a pet??
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(Veena on Aug 25, 2006 3:22 PM) Now let's see where do I even begin? Forget keeping wild animals as pets...yes, that's just insane! But stuffing them all into a one bedroom apartment?? It's called animal cruelty! Why isn't any animal organization saying anything about this? I don't care what the reason is for their stay in this tiny place, these obviously wild animals, gorgeous as they may be, need their proper space and care etc.
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