The monorail connects the Palm Jumeirah to the mainland, with a planned further extension to the Red Line of the Dubai Metro.

The Al Ittihad Park station, originally intended to serve the cancelled Trump International Hotel and Tower development, was opened on July 3, 2017.

[12] Each carriage has 70 seats and can accommodate 232 standing passengers, for a total of 302 people.

[2][4] However, actual ridership averaged around 600 passengers per day during the first week,[14] and the monorail ran "virtually empty".

[15] As of July 2017[update], the line runs every 11 minutes and averages 3,000 passengers per day.