Dubai's RTA hikes taxi fares to offset high fuel prices

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is to increase taxi fares in the emirate to offset the increased cost of fuel, it said on Sunday.

"Despite the fact that fuel prices have continued to rise over the past years, the tariff remained fixed,” said Public Transport Agency CEO Eisa Abdul-Rahman Al Dosari.

“The current taxi tariffs of 1.6 dirham per kilometer, has now been increased to 1.71 dirham per kilometre; which works out as an increase of only 11 fils per each kilometre, i.e. 2.20 dirham per twenty kilometres. This increase, however, does not apply to meter starting tariff."

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