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Taxis to be available at special parking lots
Passengers now will not have to wait long hours for a taxi, as they will be able to find them stationed at special parking lots.
- By Alia Al Theeb, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:07 July 4, 2008
Dubai: Passengers now will not have to wait long hours for a taxi, as they will be able to find them stationed at special parking lots.
The Dubai Taxi Agency has completed the establishment of 20 parking lots for taxis at several locations in the emirate.
The parking lots will have taxis waiting there to make it easy for passengers to find taxis, especially in areas frequented by large numbers of visitors such as shopping malls, restaurants, hotels and union cooperatives.
Eisa Al Dossary, CEO of Public Transport Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), said the plan is to establish 54 such parking lots for taxis in the coming two months.
He said that the problem is not in preparing these parking lots, but in getting the locations.
"We are focusing on the locations that are frequented by a large number of people in addition to residential areas which has intensive population," Al Dossary said.
He said the RTA is keen on providing the best services for the public, as this service will cut the distance between those who order taxis and the taxis. They will only have to go to these parking lots to get a taxi without the need to wait or go to a main road or call a taxi by phone.
The parking lots will include all types of taxis from a saloon of four passengers, family van of six passengers, ladies taxi and taxis for people with special needs.
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