300 New Taxis in Qatar on 1 July

2000 would have been better!

LP i have forwarded ur request

I am in a car at a traffic light in Abu Dhabi, early in the morning about 7 am..

I decide to count the number of taxi's i see crossing the road in front of me only in one direction..

in the one minute or less of the traffic signal.

I counted 42 taxi's...

Doha has a long way to come in public taxi's..

Were these the same ones that were to be available the 1 June? and about 10 other dates before that stretching into the mists of time....

but does doha have enough roads to accommadate these much taxis as well as private cars everyday being imported in qatar it will be difficult to do driving here govt shud plan more new roads in city or briges near corniche

Deja vu all over again!
Mandi

Well more Taxis would be a definitive boon to this country's Road & Transport Infrastructure. No doubt !!!

Few Queries

-Are the Roads sufficient to accommodate these cars
-Will the Taxi Fares be affordable for the Commoners (who will be the main milk cows or benefactors of these initiatives)
-Will they be providing Call Taxi Services or would it be similar to standing in the Sun for hours before we could get a Taxi when required.

To develop a system and implement it for the Right People, with the Right Resources and with the Right Intention is what is required in these parts.... Not the race against whose got the longest... oh sorry!! the tallest on the Globe.

Hope the people are able to see the greater picture, the picture of success, the picture of future generations living in prosperity in all walks of life like Spiritually, Economically, Educational, Financially and with Social Maturity and broad thinking.

Few Examples - Singapore & Dubai (Read their history)

Adious

Poly

how about a city without round-abouts where u feel like you're taking your life into your hands everytime you pull out?

yeah, more taxis and private cars, for that matter, would only congest the roads. more buses, bus routes and more frequent trips would be better. i hope the railway system would come sooner too. mass public transportation is the way to go.

i hate taxi drivers the most anywhere in the world

YES, definitely the Beginning of the End of the MAFIA carlifts...They're charging too much at a minimum of 15riyals flagged down rate. They think Doha is their paradise! witweeew...life is like a wheel...sometimes you're on top and sometime you are down.

Hope to have more buses than taxis, bus is more appropriate for low earners like me.

lot of complains have been raised by people using them against the karwa drivers and no reply untill now has been answered by the karwa management for the rude behaviour of drivers against the customers

In Dubai & Abu Dhabi if the meter is not switched on the ride is free. Advertised on the dashboard. You can always get a printed receipt for the fare. If you book a taxi by phone, you will get an SMS giving the number of the allocated cab. The computerised booking system remembers your name, mobile number and the place you usually ask to be picked up from. The operators will address you by name. The taxis generally arrive promptly. The cabs have a GPS system to direct drivers who don't know the way. This also tracks their speed so they don't break the limits.
Each cab has an identifying number on the back so it's easy to report bad driving.

It can be done. Why can't Qatar get up-to-the-mark with a decent taxi service? Why do we have to lag behind in this and in so many other ways?

did anyone see any of these new taxis today?

Quite a bunch of the new maroon tops hanging around the Intercon Hotel yesterday afternoon.

They have a better system in place. Once you call , your location and requirement will be sent to 5 Taxis in the proximity . The nearest one takes the call and you will get a text on your cell with the name and number of the driver who is gona pick you. Sounds cool.

But Doha needs atleast 5000 of them not 500.

what difference does it make ???
.....Qatar i suppose is one of the richest country today in the world.
Just by making tall towers .......A BIG NO
Next to the tall towers the roads are still of the same width...and not widened
Infrastructure of roads in at crawling speed
More taxis more traffic jams
No police men around to smooth up the traffic
And what ever is done it is done only in Doha....does anybody outside Qatar have heard of cities like Wakra and Alkhor...
horrible planning as usual....
Only the good income people are taken for statistics.
I have seen areas where the bachelors live...its little road you find in the potholes...
There are more of negatives things that i can put it out here than the positive....even then i always crib with my friends about Qatar being better who come from other GCC countries.

Yes nice to know new road u get to make but when???????
i can see a very bid building under construction opp souq waqf...a small two way next to it...when is Qatar going to grow up i really don't know...
well its more than 3 months its dug up outside my villa in fact the whole of area...i am scared to let my son play out side with the fear in case he happens to fall in the deep ditches...there is stagnant water n coz of this mosquitoes around..
when we took some photographs of it and took it complaint the guy sitting in there says whats the problem in the pics...about the flies he said spray medicine ....so he is telling me to do pesticide control myself out my house..wow great ...MY PROBLEM SOLVED

today 4th even one new taxi I can't find on road..............