Dubai students’ safety in focus as RTA amends rules for school buses

Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) officials told Gulf News on Sunday that six months’ notice have been given to schools to comply with the changes, following which the law will be implemented stringently from September 1. “According to the law [first issued in 2008], school buses cannot speed more than 80km/h, and must have RTA-approved speed control devices installed to ensure this,” said Furat Ali Al Ameri, director of franchising and enforcement at the RTA’s Public Transport Agency.

RTA’s massive online outreach aims to popularise mass transport, e-services

Dr Aysha Al Busmait, director of RTA’s Marketing and Corporate Communication, stated that RTA managed to communicate video clips on the YouTube website to around 300,000 viewers since the launch of its channel on the YouTube in December 2008. RTA’s YouTube library includes more than 160 video clips intended to publicise and broadcast the culture of using mass transit modes of all kinds.

RTA launches new bus route

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will launch a new bus route on February 3 to link International City with Warsan 3 and the service will be operational on Fridays. The public transport routes are one of the key strategic initiatives and key pillars of raising the percentage of trips made by public transport means through enticing various segments of the community to use mass transit systems in their daily travels.

Dubai’s RTA lifts 346.5m passengers in 2011

A total of 346.5 million passengers used public transport in Dubai last year, Mattar Al Tayer, chairman and executive director of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced. The passenger figures compared with 332 million passengers lifted in 2010, a 4.3 percent rise, according to the figures released by the RTA’s statistics section.

Testing times for Dubai taxi drivers

Dubai taxi drivers are being sent back to school to improve driving standards and customer service. Every driver in the emirate will undergo a 240-hour training course – and if they haven’t shaped up by the end of it, they could lose their jobs.

New Year: Dubai, countdown begins tonight

Dubai will be lit up at midnight by 15 minutes of spectacular fireworks rising up from Borj Al Arab, the most luxurious – and tallest – hotel in the world, known also as the Sail, from Atlantis in Palm Jumeirah, and from the Global Village, which is located where Dubai meets the desert behind it.

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