In accordance with a study released from Dubai Police, traffic accidents including more than one car caused deaths over the past 11 months. The study unveils horrific numbers of 95 deaths and 1,710 injuries from 2,124 vehicle smashes; whereas the second highest number of deaths were pedestrians being hit by vehicles, with 40 killed and …
Nure Alam, a forty-year-old Bengali taxi driver working for Al Ghazal Taxi, has found AED 88.500 in cash in his cab. One afternoon, Mr Alam took a Somali citizen from Sofitel Hotel in Abu Dhabi and dropped him at the Millennium Hotel on Khalifa Street. The fare was AED 4.50 and the man gave him …
Coping with the latest vogues and new things in terms of transportation and traffic, Abu Dhabi’s Taxi Media is up to launch a new system in order to keep more in touch with the passengers. The system is based on having interactive touchscreens with advertisements and entertainment in every taxi in the emirate. As Taxi …
Some other weeks left to bring the three-year-roadwork in Jumeirah Lake Towers to a conclusion and relieve thousands of motorists and residents who were thinking to move to other places in the city from great traffic congestion. Commenting on this crisis, Ahmed bin Sulayem, the executive chairman of Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority (DMCC), called …
Over three years and more of road widening, constructing bridges and fixing up traffic light systems in Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT) following what were witnessed of negative impacts on thousands of people staying in infinite traffic lines at the peak times have become something over and done. Comments: *A Scottish citizen lived in JLT for …
According to Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed bin Darwish, Director of Sharjah Police Patrol, pointed out that the overall traffic accidents occurred in 2013 reached 223, in which most of the cases were children who run over by their parents and others. “We are urging parents or people reversing their car to cross check road emptiness before …
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As reported by a new study, roughly 39 million traffic offences were perpetrated in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over six from years, between 2007 and 2012. Major Rashid Al Fardan, Head of Traffic survey at Sharjah Police, pointed out that this study displayed contentious behaviors were the key causes of accidents. For instance; tailgating, …
In framework of the Capital’s traffic master plans, Abu Dhabi Municipality has started upgrading five motorway rest areas. The areas allow motorists and others to have their food in the way and go shopping as well as fitting out parking and traffic system and untighten congestion and make the roads safer. The first area will …
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In order to facilitate Abu Dhabi’s hectic roads and decrease the amount of pollution, the Department of Transport has launched a Park and Ride scheme introducing free of charge parking and buses for commuters and motorist. In framework of their scheme, the department provides shuttle buses at Zayed Sports City to take commuters to all …
Though motorists and commuters in Abu Dhabi are still facing formidable challenges on the way to and fro, Department of Transport has launched a new initiative in its scheme that would solve traffic problems to some extent. The initiative is called park-and-ride, in which the section of Zayed Sports City’s car park set on the …
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