The second line of Dubai metro, the Green line, will now open in September rather than August as initially planned.

The Green line was originally expected to open in June 2010.

The route runs for 23 kilometres and will have 17 stations. When it opens in September, two additional stations also planned for the line, Al-Jadaf and Creek stations, will not open “due to the non-completion of the property projects that ought to be served by these two stations”, according to a statement from Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA).

The stations that will open are Etisalat, Al-Qusais, Airport Free Zone, Al-Nahda, Al-Qiyadah, Abu Hail, Abu Baker al-Siddique, Salah Uddin, Union, Baniyas Square, Palm Deira, Al-Ras, Al-Ghubaiba, Al-Fahidi, Khalid bin al-Waleed, Oud Metha and Dubai Healthcare City.

Trial runs of the metro line have already started.

The Red line opened in September 2009 and the metro carried 30 million passengers in its first year of operation (MEED 8:9:10).