5,800 join Dubai car pooling scheme

CAR SHARING: Nearly 6,000 people have now signed up for an RTA initiative to ease traffic congestion in Dubai. (Getty Images)

Almost 6,000 people have so far registered for a new carpooling scheme in Dubai.

The Roads and Transport Authority’s Sharekni.ae was launched in July in an effort to ease the emirate’s traffic congestion, help cut emissions and tackle the problem of illegal taxis.

So far, 5,800 people have registered on the site and of those, 110 are now sharing lifts through the scheme while others are waiting for other users with matching journey criteria to come up, reported UAE daily The National on Tuesday.

The highest number of registrations had come from Filipinos, followed by Pakistanis and Indians, with a handful of UAE nationals signing up so far. Most participants were using the scheme for relatively short journeys, including commuting between Dubai and Sharjah.

Dubai has the highest rate of car ownership of any city in the world, and the RTA sees carpooling as part of the overall long-term solution to the emirate’s traffic woes.

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