The UAE needs to align speed limits on its roads as part of a unified traffic law to narrow existing gaps in the system throughout the country’s emirates, Dubai’s Traffic Police Chief was quoted on Monday as saying.
Major General Mohammed Al Zaffn also proposed that persons aged over 65 years must be given a five-year driving licence instead of 10 years, noting that the United States and other countries renew licences for those persons every one year.
Quoted by the Interior Ministry’s Arabic language police magazine “999”, he suggested the creation of a “Supreme Federal Traffic Committee”to be headed by Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Lt General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
“The main task of this committee is to unify traffic laws in the UAE as the absence of such standard laws is undermining the entire system,” he said.
He said some administrative traffic measures taken by some emirates “fall out of the line and consequently disrupt the traffic system countrywide.”
“For example, we need to unify speed limits on both internal and external roads… this committee can undertake this mission and also draw up traffic policies and decisions.”
Zafin said he had carried out what he described as a “comparative” study about driving licence rules in the UAE and other countries.
“I found that the US and the Netherlands, for example, renew driving licences for persons above 65 years every year… I think we need to draft laws here to grant a licence or renew one for those persons every five years instead of 10 years,” he said.
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