23 Jul 2008
RTA now allows you losers to carpool
The all-mighty Road & Transport Authority has now benevolently lifted the ban on carpooling, to allow the humble residents of Dubai to share rides to work with co-workers. But first, you have to take their permission by applying for a piece of paper that will give you limited rights on who you are allowed to transport.
If you want to share a car to work, you are first ordered to visit RTA’s Sharekni (Shrek?) website at www.sharekni.ae and register yourself. You are allowed to list the names of up to four of your co-workers and no more. You are not allowed to pile in five bodies into your seven-seater 4WD. Registration allows you to get this paper permit, which is only valid for 6 months.
The permit is free, for which we lowly subjects are eternally grateful. If you get caught with passengers and without a permit, you will be fined Dhs 5000 by undercover inspectors. If you get caught with people who are not listed in your permit, you will be fined Dhs 5000 by undercover inspectors. If you are giving a lift to a friend who is not listed on the permit and who you cannot prove to be your friend, you will be fined Dhs 5000 by undercover inspectors and your car will disappear. If you really are running a cheap private taxi to help brown people who cannot ever get real taxis, you will be fined Dhs 5000 by undercover inspectors, your car will disappear, and you will not exist any more.
The RTA would humbly like to take credit for introducing the concept of carpooling in Dubai.
by Mastershen, on July 23 2008 @ 3:36 pm
Sharekni is in arabic & it means (share with me), & yeah it does ring a bell bout shrek.
by Don Raj, on July 23 2008 @ 7:15 pm
well 2day i spotted the new FX in freezone today….it was on a truck with loads of new FXs….the car looks really beefy…..i think it will do well in UAE.
by RayD, on July 23 2008 @ 8:38 pm
Since when did you need permission from someone to help a friend/colleague get to work/home? So Mash, I stand to get a fine for taking my girlfriend out or helping her get to work and back when her car is in for a service?!
by stig, on July 23 2008 @ 9:11 pm
in uae you arent allowed to have more than 4 friends. more than that is haraam.
by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury, on July 24 2008 @ 1:27 am
I am assuming the targets are usually brown people in cheap cars.
by Sylvia Smith, on July 24 2008 @ 1:34 pm
Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury - well not all white people owns expensive cars.you are nothing but a racist!!get back to the country where you came from and ask your mother to teach you some attitude!!
by Michael Brody, on July 24 2008 @ 2:15 pm
Sylvia Smith - How bout you go back to where you came from, considering you cant afford an expensive car here even after being white. Get off ur bar stool and go look for racism elsewhere.
by Murf, on July 25 2008 @ 10:15 pm
Nothing racist..taxi drivers themselves admit they pick passengers according to their race..