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No immediate plan for more Salik gates –

RTA

Dubai’s transport chief also says no plan to increase charges of

existing services.

SALIK GATES: The RTA said on Thursday it had no immediate plans to introduce new Salik gates to encourage
the use of the metro. (Getty Images)

There are no immediate plans to install new Salik toll gates after the launch of the

Dubai Metro, the emirate’s transport chief has said.

“We have no immediate plan to introduce Salik on more roads even after the metro

launch,” Mattar Al Tayer, chairman and executive director of the Dubai Roads and
Transport Authority (RTA), said in comments published by UAE daily Gulf News on

Thursday.

He told the paper that the RTA had no plan to increase charges on any of its existing

services and would also not introduce any new fees this year following instructions from
the government.

He said that reports in the market about the introduction of new Salik gates to

encourage motorists to use the new metro system were baseless.

However, Al Tayer did not completely rule out the possibility of having more Salik
controlled roads in future depending on the growth and trends in Dubai traffic.

“I cannot give any time frame as it all depends on the mobility needs in future. All I can

say is that we don’t take such decisions without conducting studies in advance,” he told

the paper.

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