Fireworks have become a tradition now in the UAE and vast sums of money are being spent on a regular basis to entertain us in the sky. With little chance of rain cancellations the shows are becoming ever more impressive, as are the traffic jams caused by those attempting to get to see them. Unfortunately many people only every get to see them fleetingly from a car stuck on the way to the Corniche. One day I'll get down beneath them myself and watch the sky turn multi-coloured and listen to the thundering, up close and personal.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
New names to confuse old timers
The move to re-label the city has begun with nice new street signs.
Unfortunately some of these names are not going to be so easy to work with and since the deployment of the new signposts, the old numbers are disappearing. Here is your current guide to the new names that I have discovered so far. This will need updating as the process proceeds. Where there is no new name listed it could be that the old one will continue, but I have yet to see a new sign to confirm it. However, the familiar forms are likely to be under threat quite soon. It will be interesting to see how long the GPS maps take to update and also what changes we see with google maps, etc. Will they opt for multiple versions or will they just adopt the new names?
| New name | No. | Old name | Familiar name | aka |
| Corniche | 1 | Corniche Road | The Corniche | |
| Rashid Bin Saeed al Maktoum | 2 | Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum | Airport Rd | Old Airport Road |
| Khalifa Bin Zayed St | 3 | Khalifa St | Khalifa St | |
| Sultan Bin Zayed First St | 4 | Muroor | Muroor | New Airport Road |
| Hamdan Bin Zayed | 5 | Hamdan Bin Zayed | Hamdan | |
| Fatima Bint Mubarak St | 6 | BaniYas Najda St | Najda | |
| Zayed the First St | 7 | Zayed the First | Electra | Khalidiya St |
| Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan St | 8 | Al Salaam St | Salaam St | Eastern Ring road |
| Al Falah St | 9 | Al Falah | Passport Rd | |
| 10 | Al Firdous St | 10th | ||
| Hazza Bin Zayed the 1st | 11 | Hazza Bin Zayed the 1st | Defense St | |
| Delma St | 13 | Delma St | 13th | |
| 15 | Mohamed Bin Khalifa St | 15th | ||
| Shakhbout Bin Sultan St | 19 | Al Saada St | 19th | |
| Dihan St | 21 | 21st | ||
| Salama Bint Butti St | 23 | 23rd | ||
| 24 | Al Karama St | Karama | ||
| Al Dhafra St | 25 | 25th | ||
| Mubarak Bin Mohammed St | 26 | King Khalid Bin Abdul Aziz St | 26th | |
| Mawgab St | 27 | 27th | ||
| 28 | Khalifa Bin Shakbout st | 28th | ||
| Rabdan St | 29 | 29th | ||
| 30 | Al Khaleeja al Arabi | Khalija al Arabi | ||
| Dhafeer St | 31 | 31st | ||
| Al Bateen St | 32 | 32nd | ||
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