Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Public Transport Authority has unveiled new draft mechanisms and controls to control the operation of public taxi and airport taxi companies and journey in them.
The brand new rules embrace permitting in-vehicle promoting, offered that the promoting materials or digital display screen is positioned in a spot that doesn’t distract the driving force’s consideration and doesn’t have an effect on the security and luxury of passengers.
The rules embrace strict provisions to make sure service high quality and passenger security. The authority printed the brand new rules through the Istitlaa platform for public suggestions earlier than placing them into ultimate form.
The brand new rules enable a taxi driver to refuse to supply service to passengers beneath 9 circumstances. These embrace smoking or consuming by passengers; the variety of passengers exceeding the variety of accessible seats within the automobile; failure of passengers to put on seatbelts always through the journey; aggressive conduct or indicators of drug use on the a part of passengers; specifying an unknown vacation spot; tampering with automobile parts or labels; and never adhering to public etiquette and good manners.
The rules mandate taxi drivers to adjust to the required conduct and behaviors. These embrace working the fare meter from the beginning of the journey; sustaining private look; retaining the cleanliness and upkeep of the automobile; not smoking contained in the automobile; adhering to the authority’s accredited costume code; not violate the privateness of passengers in any approach; and displaying the next assertion within the automotive: “If the fare meter is just not activated, the journey is taken into account free.” In keeping with the rules, pets are permitted, offered they’re stored in cages.
Public taxi drivers are permitted to function inside the metropolis the place the license is issued in addition to to move passengers to different cities. Airport taxi drivers are permitted to move passengers from the airport to different cities, governorates, and cities, and return journeys from town to the airport will not be permitted.
