Build and They Will Come
May 21st, 2010Though not necessarily in that order.
For the past several years, the morning rush hour traffic in Dubai has consisted mainly of the ubiquitous white buses used to transport the army foreign workers from their modest camps out onto the city’s building sites.
Though obviously slowed a little by the stalling of new developments, there are still a huge number of sites running at full speed. Even after officially opening in January, the Burj Khalifa is still inhaling thousands of workers every morning via an ant’s trail of blue, beige and yellow overalls, snaking out of the carpark entrance and across several intersections to the drop off point a few blocks away. By 7.00am, all the hired help is inside at work, the traffic changes to upscale sedans and shiny 4WD’s, all carrying the suits and ties of corporate Dubai.
