What to Know About Salik and How Does It Make Traveling Easier in Dubai?
The Transport Authority in the city to guarantee smoother vehicular development propelled Salik in Dubai in 2007. Salik originates from the Arabic word, which actually suggests clear and moving. A completely electronic and computerized framework, Salik utilizes RFID innovation to recognize vehicles and deduct the fitting toll from them, each time they go through any of the 7 toll entryways in the city where Salik has been set up.
The toll sum each time is an ostensible 4 AED. Instead of manual accumulation of this toll which used to be lumbering and required a great deal of exertion, this robotized framework has implied that vehicles can essentially go through without having to physically stop to pay toll.
Salik Toll Gate Locations
The 7 Salik Toll Gate areas are as per the following:
- Al Safa – the private network that has the Chinese department
- Al Maktoum International Airport
- Al Barsha – West Dubai's famous region with the Mall of Dubai among different attractions
- Al Garhoud – Another noticeable Dubai area that has the Head Office of the Emirates Group
- Airport Tunnel
- Al Mamzar North
- Al Mamzar South
With certain special cases, in practically all cases, you will pay a similar 4 AED toll. The exemptions are ordinarily to do with the planning at which you travel or the recurrence with which you make the back and forth venture between a similar toll point.
Step by Step instructions to Get a Salik Account
It is extremely simple to open a Salik account. You basically buy a prepaid record which is valued at AED 100. This will get you a Salik label sticker which you can advantageously join onto the windshield of your vehicle – including a rental one from Rental Cars UAE that you may have contracted.
How to Utilize your Salik Account while Driving
The greatest comfort by a long shot with your Salik record is the way that you never again need to stop at any of the toll entryways that we referenced above, to pay toll. For whatever length of time that the Salik label sticker is appended accurately on the windshield of your vehicle, the framework will naturally remember it and deduct the appropriate toll.
What you do need to do however is to watch out on the parity that you keep up on your Salik account; it should consistently be sufficient to pay the relevant toll. Generally a fine might be collected, which you obviously would need to maintain a strategic distance from.
Final Words
It has turned into a gift to drive in Dubai because of the presentation of the Salik mechanized toll accumulation framework. Presently, you never again need to stop and pay tolls physically.
What's more, this remaining parts genuine, in any event, when you contract any of the various rental autos we offer at Car Hire Dubai!
