Carpooling regulations

Over at UAE community blog Seabee outlines the hoops that Dubai government Roads and Transport Authority have created in order to carpool legally. The plain if nontransparent reason for these regulations is to protect the government's monopoly in public transport - both bus and taxi.

Dubai is not the only government that protects taxis. Check out these examples to be found at Carpe Diem.

For earlier posts on taxis, and taxi regulation in the Dubai and the UAE click the label "taxis" to this post.