Dubai New Bus Routes July 2026: Everything Changing From July 17

If you take the bus anywhere in Dubai, mark your calendar for July 17. That’s when the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) flips the switch on a fairly major shake-up of the city’s bus network: four brand-new routes, plus tweaks to 13 services already running today.

The goal, according to RTA, is simple, cut down waiting times, tighten up how buses feed into the Metro, and make sure routes actually match where people are travelling to and from in 2026.

RTA arrived at these changes after digging into ridership patterns and travel habits across the city, rather than making adjustments on a whim. The result is a network that leans harder into Metro integration than before.

The Four New Routes

• Route 35: links International City to Dubai Silicon Oasis, arriving roughly every half hour at peak times.
• Route 85: bridges Al Quoz‘s Al Khail Gate area with Dubai Internet City Metro Station, with buses every 20 minutes during rush hour.
• Route 37A: travels from International City to Dubai Silicon Oasis Lake, also on a 30-minute peak schedule.
• Route 37B: covers the same corridor as 37A but in reverse, again every 30 minutes at busy times.

What’s Changing on Existing Routes

Plenty of regular riders will notice their usual route looks a little different from July 17 onward:

• Route 27 moves off Al Sukook Street and onto Al Mustaqbal Street instead. Route 29 remains an option for anyone who preferred the old path.
• Routes 36A and 36B are being phased out on the International City–Dubai Silicon Oasis corridor entirely, with the new 37A and 37B stepping in to handle trips toward Academic City and Silicon Oasis.
• Route 67 swaps its endpoint from Al Ghubaiba Bus Station to Oud Metha Bus Station, putting riders closer to the Metro’s Green Line.
• Route 84 now stops at InsuranceMarket Bus Stop instead of continuing to Mall of the Emirates, the new Route 85 has been added specifically to cover the Dubai Marina–Al Quoz leg that riders would otherwise lose.
• Route 88 ends its run at ONPASSIVE Metro Bus Stop rather than Umm Al Sheif Street; Route 8 now handles onward journeys to Dubai Internet City.
• Routes 96 and X94, both heading toward Al Quoz, are being rerouted away from Expo Road and onto Al Yalayis Street and Jebel Ali, a change aimed at trimming travel time.

Metro Link Feeder Changes

The smaller Metro Link feeder buses are getting an update too:

1. F06 stretches further out to Nad Shamma.
2. F29 switches its focus from Umm Suqeim 3 to Umm Al Sheif.
3. F36 now reaches Al Barsha South 2.
4. F47 has been redrawn to serve the staff accommodation zone in Jebel Ali Industrial Area.
5. F49 drops its stop near Parco Hypermarket when departing Danube Metro Station, anyone relying on that stop can hop onto Routes 56, 95A, F47, or F53 instead.
6. Route C01 takes a different path during the evening rush between Flame Intersection 2 and Dnata 2, purely to shave time off the commute.
7. Route X22, bound for Al Qusais Industrial Area, will skip Business Bay altogether, it now departs directly from the Business Bay Metro Bus Stop via Sheikh Zayed Road, while Routes F14 and F41 pick up the slack for anyone travelling within Business Bay itself.

RTA frames all of this as routine housekeeping, the kind of network fine-tuning it does periodically as the city grows and travel patterns shift.

Still, if any of these routes are part of your daily commute, it’s worth pulling up the RTA app or website before July 17 to double-check your stop, timing, and any transfer you might now need.

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