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2/11/2025

Gulf News took a ride on Sharjah's new city bus service

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00:00All about bus number 14. It's taken some time, but this is Sharjah's very first city bus

00:11service. There may only be one route, but plucky number 14 covers almost all the city

00:17single-handedly in a little over two hours. And these are some of the first passengers

00:22trying it out. It's the first of a series of bus routes to be rolled out across the

00:27emirate. We hopped on and talked to some early morning commuters.

00:32Sometimes you have to wait for the passengers and sometimes go quickly. I don't know. Morning

00:39I ride it and he go quickly. The driver and the fellow people, they do not know the English.

00:47That language problem is very difficult for the foreigners.

00:52Number 14 still has to deal with Sharjah's snarling traffic though. And as the bus gets

00:57packed with commuters, it can get a tad stuffy. But it's all part of a longer-term strategy

01:03to change mindsets about public transport. All the design of the streets always have

01:09been made, the thought always is for cars. We've been getting a lot of vibes and a lot

01:16of people happy to have a service because they were suffering before.

01:22The buses will have state-of-the-art technology like automated fare collection and passenger

01:27information displays. People will also be able to log on to a dedicated website to plan

01:33their journeys. These are baby steps for the emirate's first bus service. It does seem

01:38popular. But whether the majority of people will choose to abandon their cars for a bus

01:44is still a question that city planners are pondering. Sunita Manon, Gulf News.

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