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New Traffic Fines

Kindly be note that the traffic fines starting today will be as
follow:

Radar: 500 Dhs instead of 200 Dhs
Cutting a red sign: 1,500 Dhs instead of 500 Dhs for the first time
& 3 Days in jail for the second time.
Take care and be careful,

For all who drive in Dubai,
All Dubai except Jumeira:
All Dubai radars have been reset to catch if your speed is 10 Km/Hr
above the street speed. In other words, If the speed limit is 100
Km/Hr (like beginning ofSHK Zayed Road) you shouldn't exceed 109
Km/Hr.[Before was: if the road speed limit is 100 Km/Hr , the radar
only was to catch if the speed is 120 Km/Hr]

Jumeira (Main Roads only)
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The speed limit is 80 Km/Hr and radar will catch on 81 Km/Hr Jumeira

(Suburb Roads only):
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There are hidden radar cameras. The speed limit in these villas
areas is 40 Km/Hr. YES it is only 40 Km/Hr

From: General Headquarters of the Dubai Police
Subject: Crossing the Yellow Line (Driving on the shoulder of street)

The Traffic Division greets you and wishes to draw your attention to
a serious traffic offence committed by drivers which is driving on
the shoulder of streets (crossing the yellow line). As this is a
grave offence and leads to reckless endangerment of the lives of
other drivers as well as being a grave breach of Traffic Law, the
Dubai Police has decided to take firm action to stop this kind of
offence which is as follows:

1. Impounding of vehicle for six months.
2. Applying the laws concerning fines and ancillaries thereof.
3. For those working as drivers, they must be deported and proof of
deportation must be provided.
4. Six black points are given.
5. The driving license shall be withdrawn in case of committing this
offence twice, and shall not be returned to its owner until he/she
passes a difficult test and pays a fine of 3000 Dirham.
6. After all of the above procedures have been completed, the
vehicle will be released.

Therefore, please pass this information to all of your colleagues
and acquaintances as well as drivers working for you or your company
in articipation of our campaign to clarify this issue and to
emphasize that any offence will not be tolerated and the above
penalties shall be applied to all offenders to preserve the safety
of all drivers and users of the road, as well as to uphold the law.

Regards,

Yasser M. El-Sheikh

Projects Manager
Roads & Transportation Authority (RTA)
Government of Dubai

It's about time

It's about time

whats wrong with meeeeeeeeeeeeee

sage & onion wrote:whats wrong with meeeeeeeeeeeeee

Where do you want me to start?

yay! Now when are more police patrol units going to get trained and hired? There's an obvious shortage of law enforcement on the roads...

^ian^ wrote:

sage & onion wrote:whats wrong with meeeeeeeeeeeeee

Where do you want me to start?

At the begining

I wonder how many of the blacked out 2 and 3 digit number cars will actually receive any of these penalties? Hmmm...



Knight

Dubai Knight wrote:I wonder how many of the blacked out 2 and 3 digit number cars will actually receive any of these penalties? Hmmm...



Knight

What are you trying to say DK

sage & onion wrote:

Dubai Knight wrote:I wonder how many of the blacked out 2 and 3 digit number cars will actually receive any of these penalties? Hmmm...



Knight

What are you trying to say DK

Just wondering...that's all.



Knight

Dubai Knight wrote:

sage & onion wrote:

Dubai Knight wrote:I wonder how many of the blacked out 2 and 3 digit number cars will actually receive any of these penalties? Hmmm...



Knight

What are you trying to say DK

Just wondering...that's all.



Knight

Maybe we should start a poll

As long as you start a poll and not another lame game!

Well the blacked out local-driven SUV's are not the majority, are they? And besides recklessness and disregard for safety is an age thing more than anything...

freza wrote:As long as you start a poll and not another lame game!

Well the blacked out local-driven SUV's are not the majority, are they? And besides recklessness and disregard for safety is an age thing more than anything...

Good point!

freza wrote:As long as you start a poll and not another lame game!

Well the blacked out local-driven SUV's are not the majority, are they? And besides recklessness and disregard for safety is an age thing more than anything...

Why don't you start the poll and keep the lame comments to yourself

freza wrote:As long as you start a poll and not another lame game!

Well the blacked out local-driven SUV's are not the majority, are they? And besides recklessness and disregard for safety is an age thing more than anything...

They are the minority, but its not just age. Its a feeling of immunity from prosecution.



Knight

sage & onion wrote:

freza wrote:As long as you start a poll and not another lame game!

Well the blacked out local-driven SUV's are not the majority, are they? And besides recklessness and disregard for safety is an age thing more than anything...

Why don't you start the poll and keep the lame comments to yourself

Why don't you make some lame comments and keep a poll to yourself?

Dubai Knight wrote:

freza wrote:As long as you start a poll and not another lame game!

Well the blacked out local-driven SUV's are not the majority, are they? And besides recklessness and disregard for safety is an age thing more than anything...

They are the minority, but its not just age. Its a feeling of immunity from prosecution.



Knight

that's a male thing ... cuz one only needs to look around to see this phenomenon; but in general the younger, the masculine, the stupider

BS the radars have been reset, been through the two that are usually operational on the way to work and still breeze through at 140 with no probs.

XRW-147 wrote:BS the radars have been reset, been through the two that are usually operational on the way to work and still breeze through at 140 with no probs.

I was thinking the same thing in Jumeirah yesterday when I flew past a couple of cameras at 85k.

^ian^ wrote:I was thinking the same thing in Jumeirah yesterday when I flew past a couple of cameras at 85k.

The only thing I can comment on regarding that is they are not all on.

Some of us don't have a car that will DO 140!



Knight

XRW-147 wrote:

^ian^ wrote:I was thinking the same thing in Jumeirah yesterday when I flew past a couple of cameras at 85k.

The only thing I can comment on regarding that is they are not all on.

This one usually is though, outside the Sheikhs beach home. I quite often see people get pinged by it.

I don't think that it is official !! cause according to the local law it should be announced through the media. Did anyone read it in the newspaper ??
then plz stop spreading rumors unless u r suree 100% !!!

^ian^ wrote:This one usually is though, outside the Sheikhs beach home. I quite often see people get pinged by it.

Well, they can be turned on / off remotely so could swing either way really.

Palkid7 wrote:I don't think that it is official !! cause according to the local law it should be announced through the media. Did anyone read it in the newspaper ??
then plz stop spreading rumors unless u r suree 100% !!!

I tend to agree. The email that went around was too well written to have come from the Ministry of Information.

Palkid7 wrote:I don't think that it is official !! cause according to the local law it should be announced through the media. Did anyone read it in the newspaper ??
then plz stop spreading rumors unless u r suree 100% !!!

The official information was supplied by an official journalist who received the official press release from an official officer of the Dubai Police Official Traffic Department. As soon as the official presses run...it will be official.



Official Knight

Dubai Knight wrote:

Palkid7 wrote:I don't think that it is official !! cause according to the local law it should be announced through the media. Did anyone read it in the newspaper ??
then plz stop spreading rumors unless u r suree 100% !!!

The official information was supplied by an official journalist who received the official press release from an official officer of the Dubai Police Official Traffic Department. As soon as the official presses run...it will be official.



Official Knight

At which point it will then be officially denied.

I've read the same thing agesss ago.
It looked liek the exact same forward doing the rounds again.

BUT the speed limit in jumeriah is/was 70. The speed sign even says 70.
Have they actually increased the limit???

Or officially retracted...



Unofficial Knight

OK...a dude just walked into my office, because the police impounded his car for being stuck in the middle of a junction when the light turned red!

Now the funny part:

They wanted to keep it for 1 month, but in the end agreed to just 3 days! Not only that, they don't have enough space to store it, so they wanted him to 'leave it at his house'!

Thats a killer!!



Knight