In what amounts to a restriction of personal freedom for people of limited income, UAE’s Sharjah traffic agencies have enacted a ban on issuing driving licences for people in jobs that fall in 100 categories. According to Gulf News, the ban will affect nurses, cooks, carpenters, housemaids, watchmen, tailors, cafeteria waiters, unskilled labourers, gardeners and bakers, among others. The paper confirmed that only Sharjah is implementing the rule.
The newspaper article says applications to open a driving licence file are already being rejected for those unfortunate enough to be in these low-paid professions. Apparently, this law is part of a grand scheme to reduce traffic, along with the ban on older cars. In our opinion, a natural extension of this law would be to ban college students from driving too, but that’d just anger parents of those rich kids who go to class in brand new luxury cars. It is easier to make those poorer workers bend over.
i can think of so many things to say right now ! one word sums it all up
@$%^ !
this is outrageous!
this is gonna reduse a lotta traffic? but how many of these ppl doing these jobs will have cars anyway? very few. Most probably have the company providing transport and now even those few who had cars will have to use company transport increasing traffic! Lets see how this turns out. its a thumbs down from me considering what their aim is…
BTW, Mash, is that pic you posted of Dubai roads? really rare to see only a few white cars LOL
That photo would be of Moscow. They don’t have signals even on multi-lane highways.
good!
In one word : Fascism
mash, you sold your mercedes too early.
this morning shaikh khalifa ordered to delay banning old cars.
This sucks!!!!
One of the most ridiculous rules ever….
gud news for those who r havin older cars
http://www.gulfnews.com/nation/Traffic_and_Transport/10263818.html
Vehicles more than 20 years old will still be allowed on the UAE’s roads following instruction from President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The decision, issued on Sunday, postpones implementation of ministerial decision No. 535, 2008, which bans vehicles older than 20 years old on the country’s roads. The decision was directed to take effect from Monday, December 1.
And I definitely agree with Mash’s opinion of extending to college students too. Most of the rash drivers include college kids who think it is “COOL” to do on-road stunts either in 150K+ Infinitis, BMWs, Range Rovers etc or in modified Accords, Camrys and Altimas!
Hehe, I wasn’t really implying that college kids should be banned from driving. Just that no one should be banned overall. Most of those doing stunts never really went to college.
Well they should try to improve the transport system before implemding this. and reduce the rents near the cities.
As for the college student. It rarely in my college someone do stunts in the car. I think most of them are mature in that stage but there are some from other young men who drive hazardly.
But you forgot about people will 4×4 and some with old benz tailgating and they have there family in there car. Dont put it only on college student.
thats suck…
low paid workers need cars more than rich pplz.
Old Benz…hehe
…but yes, I agree with Salem..it does happen..people in 4×4’s, old mercs & bmws, and then in the accords/altimas/camrys try to mess up with others most of the time!
by taking dession ban poor people to takine driving licences if they wana improve trafic then why not they restrict the age limit 25 or 30 is this best
dear reader
on sharjah please think again try some thing different only drivers not need driving licences the salesman also need driving licences in uae u cant travel taxi becuz now it is too much expensive and buses u now very well how they struggle long wait on buses stands so please change your dession and age limet is better option
is this write dession wich sharjah goverment take they try to reduce traffic fllow how they stop in sharjah all people are not having sharjah driving licences the cars come from all over the uae how can they stop taht cars i cant under stand why they ban on poor people to take driving licences this make lol
who is happy on this dession
only 
This new rule is against human rights , one thing is to ban old cars a completely different thing is telling who can drive a car and who can not , In the same way I suggest that driving licenses have to impound from the rich citizens who are often involved in accidents.
here most people dont really take good care for there car.
And if a person is poor he is losing more money on his car than saving.
A car is a privalge but I think the goverment is trying to improve the public tranporation
this is not only bad opinion but the wrost opinion
you either complain about parking space or complain about car been removed.
you cant have both due to the rapid population.
or make similar thing to Japan a proof that you have a place to park before buying a car.
please change this dession becouz there is no logic how they stop trafic flow by stoping licences ther is many people come in country for better job here is first requirement is driving licences and how a salesman sales his things in bus or ain taxi this is worst dession take by sharjah gorvement i request to traffic department please change this dession for u and the people who come here for a good job
please show which are the 100 categories
today go to submit my paper for m/c i have clerck visa but they refuse i ask them i am applying for mptor cycle not for a car but they said same same why thy not speak in english i ask them please can u give me 100 ban list he screem on me is any body know about ban list
so according to them motorcycles also cause traffic..nice..
lol why they ban on motorcycle licences is the m/c also cause trafic
is any body know about 85 ban catagorey list becuz in vist to maroor office they not give me the list
In short, we are eating the bad fruit from bad street planning.
A good underground tunnel system in both dubai and sharjah and the construction of bridges is the only answer to reduce congestion. That is my opinion.
and btw i am a university student, I agree that a low skilled worker requires the license more than me, but still due to the poor public transport and the high cost of living i think that all of us require a car license in different proportions.
last thursday i visit sharjah maroor office nasriya there is only one man for submit his file why they ban these catagorey
dears
it is surprise to read that gov of sharjah ban 85 cata of driving liccences i read complet lisit i am surprised to see that there sale, accounatnt, clerck, why they ban on sales how a sale sman sales thier goods sales mean ther different kind of sales vansale man counter saleman who is ban they not clear clerck,clerck/genreal clerck who is ban is their any relief in them please clear all things and give in news paper plsssssssssssss…?
i dont know why you people are so angry about that rule.
You can always get it in ajman police if sharjah police refused you.
the problem is if your visa is from sharjah you cannot get it from Ajman!! That rule is still not implemented along with the rule to renew ones license from any emirate,as far as i know, so people with sharjah visas have to get them done from sharjah..
in that 100 categories they ban for issuing driving licenses why they not include the local people in u.a.e that no have work or student in this ban. and this is not the solution to reduce the traffic and also accident. if you can see guys how many car they have in one local family here i think each member they have and some of this people are student and no have work they just drive to road just for fun or looking for girls (bitch!) only mostly in the evening. why they blame to the poor people work here the traffic that want to get driving licences and want get extra income only .last year they increase the salary of local people working in army and other goverment employee and i see most of them they buy new car. what you think this not the reason why the traffic and numbers of cars are increase. why they not implement rules limitating the no. of cars in one family or in a company to solve this traffic.about in accident why they not make a survey which people have more accident happens in the road the local people or other nationality bec. they have good,& expensive sports cars and when they drive or park you think they own the road. “this people they make law but mostly they are the law breakers”.
dear readers
when they write 
it is surprise to see there no protest in news papers nothing a single words
More rich kids in luxury cars on the roads!
i request to goverment of sharjah please take back your dession its almost three month
this new rule realy piss me off, i need a lisence to do my job coz im maintaning 3 factories, now i have to go by taxi everyday 7 fares a day…..this realy sucks
dear readers,
slam to all.can anybody explain why do the government of uae change laws every day?????????
salaam alaikum.in my visa is right sales man.my salary is also more 5000.so we want to apply for driving license.i can or not
Dear sir
My visa in sharjah my profession ind electrician now Iam working RAK shall Iget driving licence from Ras Al Khaima o my profession is allowed in sharjah.
yours faithfully
dy3alk why don’t you apply to become the president?
Locals in the UAE didnt reach 800 thousands yet while the rest 4.2m are foreigners, most of these people who are in the category dont need driving license.
The problem is most of them didnt dream of driving one in his home country and he comes here after while he owns a car. imagine yourself going to a country where most of them drive a plane which u have never dreamed to do, in a while u get the license and u are driving one. wow that’s really shows what will happen.
i think u have become ill with disease called “LOCALS” but never mind i hope u will be kicked out from this country and u will be ok
because some locals are in these jobs.
you people will never say thank you u will always need someone to put his feet in your head so you dont talk too much.
lool and someone saying this against human rights, most of you people didnt have any right to live as human in your home country and here they are saying banning license is against human rights lol.
if you dont like the government law then just leave
On picture is Moscow,Russia)))
Dear Sir,
Im a sales man of Building Material so I,ve to get the Driving Licence as u u know jot is not possible without driving licence so pls tell me what should i do ?
Best Regards
EASY WAY TO GET DRIVING LICENCES CHANGE YOUR VISA CATAGAREY AFTER 6 MONTHS
I M BABAR ALI STORE KEEPER IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.SO GETTING MATERIEL AND I HOPE WITH OUT DRIVING LICEINCE STORE KEEPER IS INCOMPLETE SO WHAT I DO PLEASE MUST INFORM ON MY CELL NUM THANKS
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For gulfnews:
Dear gulf news kindly can you mention in one of your small colum that this is not a fair idea atleast they should not ban those peoples who are working in offices its like everyone know there is not transport for boys they only prefer girls kindly change ur catogries as soon as possible coz the is not effecting the traffic flow but surely it is affecting the job seekers in uae the check the tourists flow in sharjah peoples are running from sharjah many of them are resigning for the liscense the is the need of a middle class people to do saving who even brought this idea in sharjah should answer to all of the peoples who really needs a liscense with sharjah visa.Thanks Hope my comment will be reviewed any someone will throughly workout and will give a positive feedback
plz change this role we r waiting for a long time do some thing for us we also change our life
plz change this role we r waiting for a long time do some thing for us we also change our life.