Era Tol d UAE Bermula!

Dubai yang gemar mendapatkan status "peneroka" dalam pelbagai inisiatif, sekali lagi mengorak langkah menjadi yang pertama dalam dunia Arab untuk memperkenalkan sistem Tol.

Sistem tol yang dpanggil Salik, bakal beroperasi 1 Julai nanti. Dhs.4 sekali lalu d dua kawasan sepanjang apa yang d kenali sebagai jalan terpanjang d Dubai - Shaikh Zayed Road.

Pelekat d skrin kenderaan siap dengan meter reader Salik kini boleh d beli d beberapa outlet (Emarat, Eppco dan Bank Dubai Islam, antaranya)

Lapuran Emirates Today hari ini:

Windscreen sticker tags for use with Dubai’s new road toll system will go one sale for the first time next week.

  And the scheme – called Salik, the Arabic word for open or clear – will start operating on Sunday, July 1.

  Hi-tech equipment will detect the tag every time a vehicle passes one of the ‘toll gates’ at Garhoud Bridge and Interchange Four on Sheikh Zayed Road.

  The Dh4 fee will automatically be deducted from the motorist’s account at the two toll points on entry.

  The scheme is intended to cut the volume of traffic between the two points.

  “We are going to offer the Salik sticker tags by the end of next week,” said Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Roads and Traffic Authority.

  “The exact day of the launch of the tags’ sale will be announced shortly.

  “These tags will be available at more than 300 locations including Emarat, Eppco and Enoc petrol stations, all branches of Dubai Islamic Bank and Emirates Bank as well as on line through www.salik.ae    “All car rental firms will have to fit tags to their vehicles. People hiring the cars will pay for using the road fitted with the toll system. This will benefit visitors from neighbouring countries who do not have cars.”    He said he expected up to 600,000 people would buy tags in the scheme’s first year.

“Currently around 100,000 vehicles pass along each side of Sheikh Zayed Road. We expect a 25 per cent fall in this number after a year of implementing the system as motorists start using alternative routes.

  “The tags will be at a fixed price of Dh100. This is fixed for everybody – we are not giving discount to anybody.

  “Special groups will be exempt from paying for the system. These will include all vehicles which carry the logos of the police, armed forces, ambulances and civil defence.

  “Buses belonging to both public and private schools, universities, colleges and institutes, as well as public transport buses, will also not have to pay the toll.”    He said the fine for passing one of the toll gates without having a windscreen tag would be Dh100 per day.

  “Earlier the fine was going to be Dh100 every time a person passed a toll point. Now we have changed this.The fine will not exceed Dh100 no matter how many times a person passes under the gates in a single day.” However, heavier fines will be imposed on drivers who commit further offences on subsequent days.