Sharjah Bus Route 8: Rolla Terminal To Sahara Centre

🚌 Sharjah Bus Route 8 — Rolla Terminal ↔ Sahara Centre

🚌 Route 8: Rolla Terminal ↔ Sahara Centre | 🏢 Mowasalat (KGL PTS for SRTA) | 📍 Sharjah City Local

The 8 is a Sharjah city local service run by Mowasalat (KGL PTS for SRTA). This page gives the published termini and main points, the fare, how the service pattern works, and the questions riders ask most — without invented timetables or stop lists.

📋 Route 8 Essential Information

Route: 8 — Rolla Terminal ↔ Sahara Centre
Service type: Sharjah City Local
Operator: Mowasalat (KGL PTS for SRTA)
Payment: Cash, or Sayer card (cheaper)
Fare: AED 8 cash / AED 6 Sayer (flat, all city routes)

🚏 Main Stops & Termini

Starts: Rolla Terminal
Via: Al Arouba Street
Via: Shaikh Saqr Bin Khaled Al Qassimi Street
Via: Al Wahda Street
Ends: Sahara Centre

These are the published termini and the named main points on the route, from the sources listed below. Directories publish main stops (street/landmark level) for Sharjah — not full stop-by-stop sequences — so we do not invent one. The complete stop sequence is in the RTA Sharjah app / Rihlati planner.

📖 About Route 8

The 8 is a Sharjah city local service in the Emirate of Sharjah, running between Rolla Terminal and Sahara Centre via Al Arouba Street, Shaikh Saqr Bin Khaled Al Qassimi Street, Al Wahda Street.

The 8 is the Al Wahda Street route to Sahara Centre — the 1 and 9 reach the same mall by different streets, so check which corridor is closest to you.

🎟️ Fares & Payment

AED 8 cash, or AED 6 with a Sayer card — the flat fare on Sharjah’s city network, the same on every Mowasalat city route. Sayer is SRTA’s smart card: prepaid packs of AED 50 and AED 95 are sold at terminals; the Blue discount card takes 25% off the Sayer fare (so AED 6 rides), and the Grey subscription card gives unlimited city travel for AED 225/month. People of Determination, seniors and social-support beneficiaries get a free SRTA travel card (directory-reported). Buy and top up Sayer at Rolla, Al Jubail, Al Sharq, Muwailah and Al Saja’a terminals.

⏰ Service Pattern

Frequency: The most frequent of the Sahara Centre routes: weekdays every 10 minutes in the peaks (06:20–08:50 and 16:00–19:50) and every 15 minutes off-peak, running until about 22:00 from Rolla and 22:15 from Sahara Centre. Weekends: 15 minutes off-peak, 10 minutes in the evening peak. (Published headway pattern, via edarabia.) Sharjah has no public GTFS feed; Google Maps carries SRTA routes for journey planning.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

How much is the fare on the 8?
AED 8 cash, or AED 6 with a Sayer card — the flat fare on Sharjah’s city network, the same on every Mowasalat city route. Sayer is SRTA’s smart card: prepaid packs of AED 50 and AED 95 are sold at terminals; the Blue discount card takes 25% off the Sayer fare (so AED 6 rides), and the Grey subscription card gives unlimited city travel for AED 225/month. People of Determination, seniors and social-support beneficiaries get a free SRTA travel card (directory-reported). Buy and top up Sayer at Rolla, Al Jubail, Al Sharq, Muwailah and Al Saja’a terminals.

Where does the 8 start and finish?
It runs between Rolla Terminal and Sahara Centre, via Al Arouba Street, Shaikh Saqr Bin Khaled Al Qassimi Street, Al Wahda Street.

Does the 8 run to a fixed timetable?
Sharjah buses run on published headway patterns (every so many minutes by time of day) rather than per-stop timetables. The pattern for this service is in the Service Pattern section above; for the next bus today, use the RTA Sharjah app or the Rihlati planner, or text your stop number to 2272.

Route data: SRTA / Mowasalat network as published in the sources for this route: Wikipedia SRTA route table; Bayut; dubizzle; Property Finder; edarabia (headway pattern); Moovit, verified October 2026. SRTA publishes no route tables on its own website; where directories conflicted, SRTA’s May 2023 fare matrix (reported by Khaleej Times) was followed. Independently compiled by the BusUpdate editorial team; confirm time-sensitive details in the RTA Sharjah app before travelling. See also: Sharjah bus routes & guides on BusUpdate and the SRTA operator page.

🌐 Route 8 in the Sharjah network

Route 8 (Rolla Terminal to Sahara Centre) is part of the Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority (SRTA) network operated by Mowasalat (KGL PTS) — the 43-route system documented route by route on this site, from the Rolla and Al Jubail terminals out to the intercity runs to Dubai, Ajman and the east coast. Sharjah is the commuter hinge of the northern Emirates: its city routes feed the terminals, and its intercity routes carry one of the heaviest Dubai-bound bus flows in the country.

💳 Fares & planning the ride

City fares are AED 6 with the Sayer card, AED 8 in cash — the card pays for itself in a few rides, and the Sayer guide on this site covers how it works. Planning: SRTA services run to published patterns rather than the minute-grids some aggregator sites invent — this page sticks to the route, its stops and its verified service pattern, and the network’s terminals (Rolla, Al Jubail, and the Sahara Centre and Muwaileh sides) are the natural starting points the route list below is organised around.

🗺️ The rest of the Sharjah City group

Route 1 — Rolla Terminal to Sahara Centre
Route 3 — Rolla Terminal to Safari Mall
Route 7 — Rolla Terminal to Sahara Centre
Route 9 — Rolla Terminal to Sahara Centre
Route 14 — Al Sharq Terminal to Sharjah International Airport
Route 15 — Rolla Terminal to Sharjah International Airport
Route 22 — Sharjah City Centre (Al Wahda Street) to SAIF Zone Gate 3
Route 77 — Muwailah Terminal to Al Saja’a Terminal
Route 88 — Rolla Terminal to Al Saja’a Terminal
Route 99 — Al Jubail Terminal to Sharjah International Airport
Route 14X — Rolla Terminal to Muwailah Terminal
Route 88X — Rolla Terminal to Al Saja’a Terminal
Route E1 — Al Jubail Terminal to Sharjah Aquarium
Route F1 — Al Saja’a Big Bazaar to Noor Al Saja’a Supermarket
Route F2 — Al Saja’a Big Bazaar to Al Saja’a Tasheel Centre
Route F7 — Rolla Terminal to Al Jubail Terminal

Appendix compiled October 2026 from this page’s build sources — see our data page for sourcing.

🧭 Using this route well

Sharjah’s city network hangs off its terminals — Rolla in the old city and Al Jubail by the corniche — and most cross-city journeys are a city route into a terminal and another out. Pay the Sayer way (AED 6 by card against AED 8 cash) and keep the card habit for the intercity runs too; the same payment logic runs across the SRTA system. In the morning peak the flow points at Dubai, in the evening it reverses — a city route crossing that tide runs fuller and slower, which the regulars on this corridor plan around.

🏛️ The system behind the service

Sharjah’s buses are an SRTA system — the emirate’s Roads and Transport Authority sets the network, and Mowasalat (KGL PTS) runs the buses under it, the same arrangement that built the route set this page belongs to. That structure explains the network’s shape: terminals as anchors, a single payment family (Sayer), and intercity routes treated as core services rather than afterthoughts — Sharjah has always moved as many people out of the emirate each morning as within it. When details change — a terminal bay, a seasonal pattern — they change through the authority’s channels first, which is why this site’s pages cite the SRTA build sources in their methodology notes and hold anything they cannot evidence.