Sharjah Fare: Vehicles for people of determination with international standards
Sharjah Taxi has 1,300 vehicles, up from 270 when it was established in 2008. Archive
Mohammed Abdullah Al-Buraimi: "Taxi drivers undergo courses dealing with various aspects of awareness and traffic safety."
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The Executive Director of Sharjah Taxi Operations Sector, Mohammed Abdullah Al-Buraimi, told «Emirates Today» that the fleet of Sharjah Taxi reached 1,300 vehicles, after it was 270 vehicles when it was established in 2008, including vehicles designated for people of determination equipped with all the necessary equipment according to the highest international standards.
He added that those vehicles were equipped with a hydraulic lift that descends from the back of the vehicle to carry the passenger with the seat assigned to him easily and easily, and there are also seats available for the family of the person with special needs, and equipped with straps to install the chair inside the car, to provide a feeling of comfort and safety, indicating that the near cost of equipping one vehicle For a person with a disability, it is about 120 thousand dirhams.
Al-Buraimi said that “Sharjah Taxi” has a great interest in drivers, because their role is important and vital in providing service to passengers, pointing out that all drivers are subjected to various courses that deal with various aspects of awareness and traffic safety, such as the arts of driving, turning, and focusing on the axis of stopping for the passenger on Public roads without obstructing traffic, avoiding sudden stops that may cause accidents, and paying attention to security awareness in terms of tightly closing the back doors to ensure the safety of children, and how to help passengers and deal with them.
And that «Sharjah Taxi» is keen to improve the general behavior of drivers, and the elimination of practices that may disturb passengers while they are inside the vehicle, and reduce traffic violations.
He stated that the special courses for drivers focus on reducing reckless driving, the importance of general cleanliness of the driver and the vehicle, introducing drivers to the geographical distribution of the areas in which they work, stopping wrongly and the resulting congestion and risks, and adhering to the parking lots designated for loading passengers and ignoring them in places not designated for that, out of concern. On road safety and the public, language and protocol courses, etiquette, cultural differences, and more.
He pointed out that since the beginnings of the new Corona virus crisis, Sharjah Taxi has focused on the importance of carrying out a set of strict precautionary measures and measures, such as comprehensive daily sterilization in stations designated for car maintenance and washing, drivers ’commitment to wearing masks and gloves, providing gloves and masks in all cars, and putting on insulators. In a group of cars, each car is provided with sterilization packaging, and the car is sterilized after each use.
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