300 New Taxis in Qatar on 1 July

i saw one (just one) for the first time yesterday.

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

newly painted & with new name:-(

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

honeybunch..more work for us Engineer to make new Roads for them..:)

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.

Why is it new if its run by the same Company?

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.

Good to hear! it's such a hassle finding transportation these days. And lately Karwa drivers are not very good with passengers as far as my experience with them is concerned! 80 percent don't use the meter especially in the evening and they choose their passengers according to the distance! if it's too near they wont let you in! and omg! hope they improve the hygiene! It's not very pleasant sitting inside with a suffocating odor if it was'nt too hot outside I would have walked home instead!

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

They will be operational by 7AM tomorrow as per the robo-voice.

did anyone see any of these new taxis today?

1. Only get into a taxi that stops after you've flagged it down. Don't get into one if the driver stopped just on seeing you walk down the pavement - even if you haven't shown any sign of needing a cab - and is looking eagerly thru the rear view mirror, waiting for you to approach.

2. Don't get into the front passenger's seat alongside the driver (that's common sense, of course). And certainly DON'T get into a taxi if the driver is asking you to sit next to him. Just wait for the next taxi that comes around, even if you're in the biggest hurry.

3. If the driver starts asking about where you work, how long you've been in the country and stuff, you can put up with it. If he asks for your phone number, and the questions start getting personal, ask him to halt at the nearest stop, and get off.

4. Try not to take a taxi after 6 in the evening if you're alone.After dark, ask a family member or friend to pick you up if you're stranded somewhere.

5. They charge you more if you're taking a cab from outside a hotel or shopping mall. Look around for the nearest place where you can hail a cab without looking like you've just exited these places.

6. Looking more businesslike/corporate employee always helps. Formal clothes, and a couple of files, papers or books in hand, and you're automatically accorded some respect.

7. Always be polite to cabbies, not friendly. There's a difference.

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?

Locals don't use Karwa taxis and expats don't have any choice so why Karwa management waste their time on such silly complaints?

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

the best thing about taking the bus is the drivers never rip you off.

they should try to implement a cashless system like the karwa bus card on taxis as well.

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

and the reason is : they will ask you with meter or w/o meter. and if you said with meter they wont assist you.

2. from Land Mark to Al Saad they are charging you QR 25 with out meter on, many times i fight with them coz when i sit they dont even tell you that our meter is not on,so when i reach my home they are asking 30 + where i should pay only 18 to 20, Gurrrrrrrrrrrr

So if u shout on them and get down from the car they will run behind you, many people has been facing the same and its really useless to complain on the Customer Service.

really H A T E the way they are ...

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.

Is this means good bye to carlift mafia at souq and at lulu!?

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

More taxis means less vehicles on the road. If you can step out, and flag a taxi down as conveniently as in Dubai (regardless of the time of day), there will be no real need to own a car for most residents.

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

How about also more public buses? a lot of people want also much affordable public transportation for everyday

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

Are we talking about year 2012 here?

Deja vu all over again!

Mandi

Insha'Allah :)

I dont know what's delaying them, but these taxis were supposed to be on the road since last January, April and June!

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

I thought they were due in April?

Why don't they just tell us when they have actually started, instead of giving us false hope over and over?

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....

more taxis will affect new and used car business.

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..

What a relief and Wrong timing when half the country will be on LEAVE or vacation ;(

LP i have forwarded ur request

that is like a rain drop in the ocean...

did you really notice...

2000 would have been better!