RTA to launch new testing method for motorcycles

The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will launch a new motorcycle testing method in Dubai in September in a bid to make the city’s roads safer and air cleaner.

In collaboration with the technical testing centres in Dubai, the Licensing Agency at the RTA will be launching a new testing service for private and commercial users, such as transport and delivery companies, restaurants and shops.

Using authorised service providers approved by the RTA would ensure accurate and professional testing using the latest techniques, including checking brakes, the outer structure of the mobike, gas pollutants, and other critical tests to make drivers safer on the roads and reduce environmental pollution.

Licensing Agency acting director of Vehicle Licensing Abdullah Abdul Rahman said the centres would have professional inspectors, who had extensive experience in driving motorcycles, to inspect the vehicles using international standards and the most modern technologies.

The approved centres are Tamam for Testing Vehicle, Al Mumayaz (Aswaq al Mezher — Al Barsha Mall), CARS for Testing Vehicles, and Quick for Registration.

These centres had contributed to the provision of special tracks for testing using the best approved global techniques, a spokesperson for the RTA said in a press release on Wednesday.

The agency would be talking to other Dubai service providers about what was required to undertake motorcycle testing, in order to provide more authorised centres across the city. The service was part of a project the agency would be launching next year, on behalf of VIMS (Vehicle Inspection Management System) to help managers of technical inspection centres develop services for motorcycles or vehicles, and raise the level of examiners and rehabilitation by testing inspectors on their practical and theoretical technical capability, Rahman added. -news@khaleejtimes.com