Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has extended the validity period of permits for learning to drive vehicles in accredited institutes in the emirate until the end of next June, for the permits issued during the closing period of driving education institutes in Dubai, in implementation of the precautionary measures taken at the state level to limit the spread of the new Corona virus as a benefit 19.
Training institutes for driving vehicles assured their clients that these permits, as well as the date of opening the traffic file for the trainees, will remain in force according to the authority’s circulars until the end of next June, and until new decisions are announced.
Driving institutes in Dubai were closed on March 26 for two weeks, to stop giving practical lessons, lectures and tests, to prevent any kind of gatherings during the period of national sterilization and the application of preventive measures to limit the spread of the virus.
The authority renewed the decision to close the driving training institutes after the end of the two weeks, that is, on April 7, to stop operating until further notice. All branches of institutes operating inside the commercial centers and malls were closed with the closing of these centers as a preventive measure.
The institutes during the period leading up to the closure applied some precautionary measures during the practical tests, as they stopped taking 3 students from the examiners inside the vehicle during the experimental test or what is known as a road test, and only one student was in the vehicle to undergo the test, as part of the application Required spacing.
It is noteworthy that the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai implemented during the past few years a number of initiatives that simplified the procedures for teaching driving cars in Dubai, such as allowing registration offices of drivers training institutes spread in most shopping centers to complete the transaction to open the traffic file, pay fees, obtain a learning permit, and schedule classes in A period of no more than 20 minutes, compared to the previous situation in which the service took two to four days at times.