The Executive Director of the Public Transport Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, Ahmed Hashem Behroozyan, confirmed to «Emirates Today» that the cleaning and sterilization operations continue daily for all means of public transport, and that it is a safe way to use, indicating the urgent need for some functional and social groups to use it, and that This necessitated the continuation of all the relevant transport authorities at the level of the world, commitment to provide a mass transport service, which is an essential artery for the continuation of daily life, even during the application of precautionary measures to combat the spread (COFED-19).
On the possibility of thermal examination of passengers before entering the metro and bus stations as a precaution, Bahruzian said: «It is difficult to apply this in light of the numbers that use the means of transportation around the clock, but the measures taken in transporting passengers, such as determining the places to sit and stand, to ensure that there is a distance Adequate safety, as well as continuous sterilization operations, make public transportation in Dubai safe, especially as passengers follow all instructions and instructions required of them. ”
And on the reason for stopping the Dubai Metro service during the national sterilization period, Bahruzian said: “The metro is the most popular means of transportation used by large numbers of passengers daily, so a decision was made to conduct intensive and continuous sterilization operations over two days for the whole of the metro train cars, knowing that cleaning and sterilization operations are continuous and continuous. Every day before the start of the national sterilization period. ”
He explained that taxis and public transportation lines were provided instead of the metro service, even during the restriction of night traffic during the period of national sterilization, in order to ensure and facilitate the transportation of passengers from the categories excluded due to their working conditions.
Responding to a question about whether there is an obligation to compel passengers to use masks and gloves while using public transport, Behroozyan said: “This is not possible, due to a number of reasons, the most important of which is that their prices are high, especially with regard to the capabilities of the groups used for public transportation, and passengers cannot be prevented From using public transportation because they don’t wear masks at a time when they don’t have other means of transportation to take them. ”
On the guarantee of the health and safety of drivers, especially taxi drivers who depend on them for passenger transport, during the nighttime restriction period during the period of national sterilization, Bahruzian said: «The first thermal examination and evaluation of the health status of drivers is carried out before the taxi is delivered to start work, where It is prohibited for the driver to receive the vehicle in the event of any healthy display that requires a stone.
Behroozyan stressed the importance of adhering to the national campaign "Stay at home", and the government instructions that emphasized the necessity of staying at home in the interest of public safety, but at the same time, he assured the users of public transport from the groups compelled to use them, that the concerned teams in the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai We are committed to applying all preventive and precautionary measures required to achieve safe transportation on public transport.