Smelly taxis a thing of the past in Dubai

it's not the driver nor the passangers...

it's the lack of hygiene awareness from thyself and surroundings that makes it stink.

if we just treat those taxis and other public transport as a way we do on our home and place of stay, then from ourselves initiative we won't have to make it stink as we leave or have it dirty before boarding or just let it stay unpleasant even we knew it needs cleaning.

the bottom line though, it's the attitude of all users that needs cleaning, not just the cars.

^_^ imho

Public transportation privatization!!!!! PLZ !!!! PLZ!!!!Let the gold old orange taxis come back...

At least they smelt bad but they gave you the consequent price for it :P Bad smelling taxi for 20km 15 riyals, YEAH :P

But now with Karwa it's like "Oh yeah we think we got nice taxis, so we overcharge you like crazzzzzzzyyyy" but give you the same service...

FACE YOUR FEARS LIVE YOUR DREAMS.....

:P

i had an experience just previous day.

When i sat in the taxi it was like someone was having Lunch dinner and breakfast all together :s

seat and other areas were so sticky :s

Work for 30 yrs and have a retirment of 3 yrs OR

Work for 3 yrs and have a retirment Of 30 yrs :D

Consult me:D

so true!those things never ever smell!no matter who travels in it....sigh,i miss them!

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor

I miss my Rickshaw from back home. The driver didn't smell, I didn't smell, The rickshaw didn't smell :(

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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

going back to the topic, the DTC have claimed that the material was proven effective in eliminating odours and spreading a pleasant sweet-scented smell in the vehicle's interior.

If that is true then let's stop pointing fingers on who contributes to the stinking smell of their taxis... whether you stink or not, once inside that taxi with deo, you only get to smell the sweet-scented smell they have installed... that's their claim, not mine :)

Through diffusion, UK.

Well we got to admit that here in Qatar thoes Krawas is clean and neat! not like the old orange taxis! so in Qatar taxis is better than Dubai (But we don't have thier metro!)

God created some races with a special smell so we should not make fun of them!

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So let me get this straight it is the seat covers that stink. But again how did the smell get into the seat covers?

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HE WHO DARES WINS

Now GT.. who were causing the smell in the taxi's the drivers or the passengers. What do you think?

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HE WHO DARES WINS

It's in the seat covers, UK. It's not the people. It's the people who used to ride in that car before.

Doha is humid, but I don't smell that much

Doha is hot but I don't smell that bad

Doha is hot and humid and I sweat but I am not so smelly...

Because I don't eat Garlic, Onion and other "natural ingredient" so much like staple diet. You eat Onion of course your sweat smell Onion..Sorry its very stink. Cannot change unless we don't have those people in Doha....Can it happen? No.

So Doha taxi, buses, police office, immigration offices, shopping mall, the aircraft, lift, corniche...all stink and smell...suffocated.

oh yes,i'm sure everybody has read it...it indeed is offensive...wonder why the mods overlooked it :S

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor

@ Paul Cowan LOL!...i don't care mate,the hong kong fella started it...@ svelte_saggi,the thread went to the siachen border beacause our friend qrmini took it there...please do read his offensive post above...

the passenger or the driver must smell, not the taxi!

wonder why this thread went from air fresheners inside taxis to the siachen border!hmm! :-/

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor

WTF? India? China? Oh, yes. You lot had a war once, didn't you? Still fighting it on the message boards?

I am ready to withstand the smelly Taxi, but I can't withstand staying under the sun waiting for Taxi...and be smelly myself.

The old orange taxis where smelly,..but guess what,..it's available,...you can note the smell in it. but for Karwa,.. you can't because of your smell waiting for it....

really funny,...!!

@ qrmini,it's quite ironic that a chink of all people should be talking of body odour based on the type of food one eats because quite frankly mate,i agree some Indians with poor personal hygiene smell & there happens to be a lot of them in this town but hey,we're a billion plus so you can't base your idea of India/Indians based on what you've seen here...so yes coming back to your thoughts on people's BO based on what they eat,nobody to beat the chinks for that mate,i'm Indian so i'm used to smelly stuff but God some of the chinks i've encountered on public transport during my travels around S.E Asia...PHEW! gives smelly a whole new dimension & it's because of all that raw/semi cooked pork you guys eat,so really,when you're pointing that finger,please realize that your remaining 4 fingers are pointing back @ you...oh & i'm sorry chink men have small peckers,don't blame yourself,it's not your fault mate...*wink*! :)

qrmini, India doesn't stink unlike chink land. SARS appeared when a chink screwed a civet cat. Weren't you that chink ?

You are talking about people who consume those items will smell badly. I pity you for your ignorance. Try to improve your knowledge buddy, and don't ever try to go India with your sub-standard mentality. You will be screwed up in no time. Yeah, no wonder you born with a tiny peter!

smelling Taxis? hmm yes some of them.

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Actually most of India isn't smelly at all qrmini. You will be pleasantly surprised if you visit:)

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

Rheeza, yep most taxis really smell awful, it lingers even when you've gotten off it..

mind your word...

btw if you think u are long why don't you use it to dig camel?

ha qrmini. That was some penis compensation behavioral talk. I can understand, it ain't your fault to be born with an inch long pencil dick.

My goodness, you don't know the luxury you've got! Ten years or so ago we had taxis without wing mirrors (and in one case, brakes), with broken window winders, defunct suspension, no a/c (unless you threatened to get out and not pay, when it miraculaously started working) and with drivers who slept in the same taxi and clothes for weeks at a time.

Back in the early 90s there was a curiously monkey-like driver whose left foot used to wander away from the brake, up the side of the door and end up on the dashboard, where he apparently found it most comfortable. It was always an experience getting into his cab. But the one I would never get in again was number 1978, which once made it from Doha to the Industrial Area at 120kmph the whole way, detouring across the desert (many of today's buildings weren't there) when he encountered traffic, roadworks or other obstacles, and then veering back onto the road.

Karwa taxis are heavenly in comparison.

Perfumes on my bag. havn't try taxi yet! is it really that smelly?

air fresheners inside the car. wrong move...

I cant smell a taxi in Qatar....I saw a Karwa yesterday.....Today I travelled 30Kms and did not see a karwa...In fact I saw 2 Dubai cars (with bigger numbers)

So how can one smell something one cannot see...lol

The tiny place called Dubai has 7,500 cabs while this huge country of Qatar has only 1,500.

that's why i never go out without some cologne in my bag, it comes in handy whenever i take a taxi.. i just spray it all around whenever i get a whiff of that "smell"... :P

However, from the comments in the article of some Dubai peeps, they dont seem to be happy.

because they have to adjust themselves with a new environment...

taxicabs could be a thing of the past yet how can these be maintained if the chauffers were always the foul thing of today?

CG 4 short

Thats right. Where did the smell comes from. Taxi dosen't smell if they don't drive pigs around.

So where did the smell come from? The customers or the drivers?

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Well done RTA and DTC for trying to improve the customer experience.

You can't teach experience...

hmm, wonder when smelly taxis would be "a thing of the past" here in Doha... not in a million years maybe.. :P

considering the highly humid climate in the country for over 5/6 months in a year.

Qatar also should adopt such measures.