Sunday, October 11, 2009

Good News to Dubai Taxi Passengers

I feel great upon  knowing that the government of Dubai has intensified its campaign against "smelly" taxis after receiving numerous complaints from various passengers.

To eliminate the pong of body odor and food smells, it handed over 3,500 air fresheners to drivers. Well, this sounds good, but I don't think this will completely solve the problem.

The fragrance of air freshener expires after a couple of minutes. Everyone knows that. And some people don't like the smell of  it. Why don't the government serve the most effective solution?

How?


  1. Educate the drivers. Teach them the basic personal hygiene. Require them to take a bath daily, change their clothes (uniform) everyday, apply body deodorant, brush their teeth every after meal. 
  2. Penalize them for smoking inside. Some drivers don't care whether their passengers die of suffocation.
  3. Teach them to clean/wash their car everyday. They must be responsible. 

If the government could not implement this solution it has to start finding ways to serve the passengers at its best. Why don't it begin operating automatic taxis?

17 comments:

cmvillanueva said...

ayos 'to, kaya lang tama ka, good for minutes lang ang solution ng gobyerno, mas ok ang mga suggestions mo pre...

Deth said...

aaawww...air fresheners lang ang solusyun nila,tsk tsk...

i agree with your suggestions, they need to realize that they need to impose better and long-term solution for the problem of commuters...

BlogusVox said...

Better yet! Replace all South Asian drivers with Filipino drivers na lang!

Life Moto said...

nice move from Dubai authority but better if they apply your suggestion.

Xprosaic said...

Ahahahhahaha... ganda ng plataporma mo ah... tatakbo ka ba?! jowk! jijijijiji

Ruel said...

@batanghenyo,
@deth,
@lifemoto,
Thank you at gusto din nyo pala ang suggestion ko..

@blogusvox,
pwede rin..for the record, walang taxi driver dito na pinoy.. Sana nga palitan na ang mga mababahong driver an yan.

@IamXprosaic,
Pag ako ba ang tatakbo iboboto mo ako?hehe

Joel said...

ipagbawal sa mga driver ang pagkain ng shawarma.. haha

talaga? naninigarilyo ang mga driver dyan sa dubai? anong klase kaya yun? balak nga talaga nilang patayin ang mga pasahero nila

Ruel said...

@kheed,
tama ka bro..walang kwenta ang mga taxi driver dito..pero hindi naman sila kumakain ng shawarma sa loob..

My Yellow Bells said...

well its not the perfect solution and not even the permanent one.

They really need to first teach them what do you mean by "personal hygiene" then from there they'll start understanding. Education and knowledge is the key. sana lng taxi operators would initiate seminars to dessiminate info to their drivers

The Pope said...

This is a good campaign towards personal hygiene ng mga taxi drivers in Middle East. Dito sa Doha, there is only one taxi company that operates in Doha, and the drivers are in clean uniforms at malinis talaga sila kasi mahigpit masyado ang management ng Mowasalat (taxi company) marami ring silang Pinoy drivers ng taxi at buses dito.

Jepoy said...

Aw, nakakahilo pa naman ang mabahong kilikili as in

Kablogie said...

Agree ako jan dahil naranansan ko na yan sa Bus ahahahah..

AJ said...

why jst the smelly taxis, how about the smelly peeps outside the taxis, hehe..

kaw talaga. kasama yan sa bagong bayani package eh. pero malaking tulong to. naalala ko tuloy si Sir Bayani F, namigay ng deodorant sa mga jeepney driver. :D

(puede ka magdonate bro)

see yah.

Xprosaic said...

Syempre naman boboto kita! jijijijijijiji... yung pampadulas ah wag mo kalimutan.... nyahahahahahahhahahah... Teka di pa pala ako nakapagparegister... makapagparegister nga muna... nyahahahahhahahah

Mars said...

what, ganun pa talaga ang inimprove nila, wala ng magagawa tungkol sa amoy dito sa middle east

Sardonyx said...

bakit ganun lang ang solution nila? kakatuwa naman air fresheners, tama ka dapat proactive at hindi reactive ang solution. Ayusin ang pinanggagalingan ng baho hehehe, ganyan pala dyan mababantot ang mga taxi??? di nga siguro sila naliligo hehehe

John Ahmer said...

...takbo ba para sa susunod ng eleksyon hehe

... napadpad : )