RTA urges more use of near empty buses

Posted by: sivakumar Monday, 2 March 2009 8:19 AM[UAE] - uae

Sir, At the moment the transportation between sharjah and jebel ali is not good. The bus comes to Gate number 2 and from where one cannot get a connecting but to come to inside free zone. It is better sharjah bus should come inside bus station. Also, people should be allowed to board the bus in between from Sharjah and l Wadha, so that people in these areas can taken Sharjah/ Jebel Ali bus easily instead of using their own cars or any other rental buses.

Posted by: Salim ALSuwaidi Sunday, 1 March 2009 8:24 PM[UAE] - UAE.

Buses will remain as it is now. 1- Poor service as many of the people here mentioned. 2- Drives skips passenger who are waiting because of Break or food time. 3- there is absulotly no Information at bus staions in some places who stop? or where it goes, i say not all. 4- Buses are always not on time 5- Public Buses don't have Priority on the street like any Europe countries.

Posted by: vk Saturday, 28 February 2009 10:19 AM[UAE] - UAE

First of all, I would like to thank RTA for the improvements implimented over last few years in public transportation system. Still there are loopholes and there is scope of further improvements. I would lie to mention following information to highlight some of these points. Authorities should understand that there are so many people working in Dubai, reside in Sharjah / Ajaman. They need to improve routes between the emirates. for example, a person resides near Al khan bridge in sharjah and working in Jebel Ali, Dubai How does he going to use public transport. For using public transport first he has to take a cab and reach to bus stand, wait in queue for bus, Bus will take its own time to reach counter part in dubai, may be Al Ghubaiba station in bur dubai. Again he has to wait in long queue for a bus further to jebel ali and so on further struggle with in jebel ali as stop may be far from work place. Again same story while return to home in evening. If you count time in such a way, eventually he will be spend more time in buses copmare to his home or office. Mr. Parham should have tried travelling this way before Galadari interchange was opened. He would have got clear cut idea that why people unable to accapt public transport in full swing. Further to this i will give a very good example, i faced myself at Ghubaiba bus station when i want to take Bus#12 to reach in Al Quoz, I was reached at the stop at 11:30 o'clock in the morning, I had to wait for almost 3 hours for the bus to come, even after buses came 2 drivers refused to take another trip because of lunch time or some other reason eventually i reached to my office it was 4:00 PM. one of the worst transportation experience in my life of 35 years.

Posted by: Ford Desmoineaux Friday, 27 February 2009 11:07 AM[UAE]

The information on the buses system is unbelievably poor - at stop information non existent in most cases, and a lack of printed information. As for the website!!! The RTA should take a look at www.nctx.co.uk on how to do it...

Posted by: Shaikh Nasir Thursday, 26 February 2009 5:44 PM[UAE] - U.A.E

I think that on some bus quantity is un justified. For example the bus from Zuleikha Hospital I very oftenly see more then 3 articulated buses are waiting idol forthe passengers and some times the bus stop become so full that the leaving bus waits so forward that passenger mis guided and bus remains full and leave empty. In this way pessenger gets bus which is leaving late and early bus leaves empty.Instead these buses should be used in Shaikh Zayed Road and Dubai Sharjah Highway in a more frequent way.