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Salik expansion brings Dubai to halt
by This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it on Tuesday, 9 September 2008Posted on Tuesday, 23 September 2008
RTA cares!
Posted by Graham Plater at 17:30 UAE time
Fazal, you are so right. Nobody should think that RTA doesn't care - they certainly do. About money. So please don't make excuses for them because "they do not have the experts to study the toll system properly". Should we feel sorry for them? Anywhere else, Salik would have been introduced after completion of the Metro (and the closing down of the building sites making things even more painful in Dubai). The main purpose of implementing an urban toll system - like in London and Singapore - is to get people to use the public transport system which is available and affordable. In Dubai, neither applies.
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Salik Toll
Posted by Fazal Baig at 12:20 UAE time
I agree with HISHAM, RTA does not actually bother, not because they dont care, but they do not have the experts to study the toll system properly. Because for me I dont see any value for money to use the salik tolls and it doesnt bother me because my company pays for it.. If you ever use the toll in countries like Malaysia, Canada and US you will feel the difference in using the toll roads..
UAE has a long way to go, and I am sure they will be there, not sure when, so lets wait and go with the so called planning..
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Posted on Monday, 22 September 2008
Don't waste your time
Posted by Hisham at 09:50 UAE time
To everyone on this list .. sorry to say this, but your comments are such a waste of time .. RTA doesn't bother a bit to change their strategy .. and NOBODY from RTA would care less about traffic being smooth etc. To those who are for Salik, my only comment is "nice try".
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Posted on Sunday, 21 September 2008
Taxis and Salik
Posted by David at 14:15 UAE time
It's a waste of time to protest about this. As it is, you pay dhs 4 for a taxi to go through Salik, even if the taxi has already gone through it 6 times that day (the maximum chargeable).
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Posted on Sunday, 14 September 2008
salik and rta
Posted by leo at 10:47 UAE time
Now all has become clear regarding the new salik gates. RTA are to spend billions on the Maydan road network with special VIP roads to enable all us VIPs to enter and exit from our places of entertainment more easily without time consuming delays. I'm sure no right thinking poor worker will object to this philosophy as what is more important? The concerns of VIPs or those of the working majority? Next case Doctor!
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Posted on Saturday, 13 September 2008
Taxi Drivers
Posted by Jon at 11:48 UAE time
Can someone tell the taxi drivers that you only pay once if you go through Al Barsha and Al Safa tolls in the same journey...
Four times this weekend I have got into an argument with the taxi driver as they do not know.
It really proves the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing in the vaults of the RTA!!!
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Posted on Thursday, 11 September 2008
Toll is taking the toll
Posted by Lisa at 09:38 UAE time
The RTA officials seem to have forgotten the purpose of introducing Salik in the first place - it was to reduce peak time traffic. It is having the opposite effect now. Where it used to take me 20 mts to reach work, now it is taking me 45-60 mts.
If they start salik on each and every route what alternate route do people have?People either clog up the very few alternative roads left or still end up using the very routes that were supposed to benefit from salik.
Also, if their intention is so noble as to only reduce peak time traffic, why don't they stick to charging people only during 7.00 AM- 11.00 AM and 4.30 PM- 10.00 PM and don't charge on Fridays and Saturdays.
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SALIK
Posted by Sunny at 08:23 UAE time
I suggest that authorities think of some way to compensate the negative public opinion and frustration related to SALIK. We got the bad news, give us some good news now! Something related to rents may be...
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Posted on Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Toll Bridge
Posted by Julie at 01:36 UAE time
I think it is rather unfair for a Country like Dubai even to consider toll booths. The country is rich enough without introducing these booths. There are many people trying to make a living with shelling out money for this. I know for a fact that there are many countries in Europe that have and dont have this type of thing. Who ever thought this crazy thing up is surely regretting it by now because it has just expanded beyond beleif. I know Dubai and I know the roads there these booths are not far away from one another and now you have the people trapped at all ways.
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salik and rta - my response to mr amits outburst...
Posted by akhtar at 19:36 UAE time
dear mr amit
i am not working for RTA, though i can tell you very conveniently that RTA is working for me. it is just a phase of re-organisation and you, my friend are in the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong level of maturity...
keep happy and do not worry about indirect and direct taxes...there is no free lunch anywhere...understand this, and you will be a happy man...shall seek your comments after 26 months...cheers till then! adios
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Fatal accident waiting to happen
Posted by Paul at 13:28 UAE time
SALIK has driven traffic from the Garhoud and Maktoum bridges onto the Floating Bridge. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Floating Bridge really only ever meant to be a temporary solution? In any case, I seriously doubt that it has been designed to cope with the level of traffic that now crosses over it.
There is going to be a serious mass fatality on our roads because of SALIK.
It would not surprise me in the slightest if, in the next few months, the Floating Bridge actually collapses from the sheer volume of traffic, no doubt with a massive casualty count as everyone stuck on that bridge drowns in their cars.
Only then would we see the possibility of SALIK being partially revoked.
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Salik!
Posted by Sanjay at 13:05 UAE time
Do the RTA people actually get a copy of our comments or is just dead weight? Maybe we should have sign language messages as clearly all these messages fall on deaf ears ...
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Salik
Posted by David at 13:03 UAE time
I'm all for anything that gets cars off the roads - if you can't afford to pay 4 dhs every time you use the Salik roads and you don't want to stand in heavy traffic on the non-Salik roads then find another way to travel, move house, change job or leave the country - Salik is here to stay no matter how stupid it is you will not change that
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RTA
Posted by Richard Honein at 12:36 UAE time
well some people are with and some are against, let me tell you something, i pay 1 aed/ HOUR for parking. near my office,there is no free space, because the parking a very small and the capacity of the cars is high. Every morning I wait around 45 minutes to find a parking after I wait around 1 & 1/2 hour in the traffic jam (sure with Salik ). At least let RTA provide new parking areas, I don’t mind to pay for the parking but find me a place and don’t waste my time...
Salik is made to make our daily driving smooth and easy, but Salik made the roads crowded like hell, I don’t mind to pay salik when I use it freely but not paying to get stuck for hours and hours…
as i mentioned before in europe you pay once you use the road and not twice when you enter and when you exit...especially now new Salik in the middle, what if you passed by a customer on the road and then you have to continue your trip after 1 hour? so you have to pay again and again.
this is UNFAIR
just tell me how many hours to go from AL Quoz to Deira at 3 pm every day in Ramadan time. and normal days at 6 pm???
please let me know...
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Salik
Posted by Rai at 11:15 UAE time
A good example are European Systems, whereby you pay your road tax every time you register your vehicle. The road tax is depending on the size of vehicle, type of engine (gas/diesel) and relates to each and every car on the road. The implementation of such system would cost far less than all these toll gates and nobody would have to sneak through back roads to get to and from work or home. It is an absolute chaos on the roads and plenty of time wasted because of all the 'salik' inflicted detours. Never mind the polution and noise created by all these vehicles, finding ways through residential areas to avoid the 'gates'!!
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