(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The car dealers are rubbing their hands, gleefully cackling and singing 'happy days are here again'...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The RTA's been and gone and removed the daily cap on its popular Salik road toll, so now if you p...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Back in 2007, when Dubai's Salik road toll was first talked about, there were rumblings and mumbli...

Image via Wikipedia Gulf News today reports that a 'study' by the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority has led to them proposing two...

The scenes outside our local ADNOC have started to become apocalyptic: a line of 45 buses stretches out onto the sand-roads behind the petr...

Salik is a joy to the hearts of many Dubai residents. There are few things that make me happier than passing under that smashing RFID-tabulo...

I've got little to add to what is destined to be a tide of furious blogs on the news today that ten new Salik gates will be built, an ex...

The potty Salik road toll system continues to amaze me. I ran out of credit a couple of weeks ago and, for one reason or another, I haven...

Pretty much every Dubai blog has posted loads of grumpy stuff about Salik, the glorious answer to Dubai traffic blues, this one being no exc...

So much has been written about Dubai’s congestion charge, Salik, that it’s difficult to contemplate adding to what’s already out there witho...

Looking at visitors to this blog (thanks for dropping by: hope you had fun), it has to be said that many are people that have been searching...

As predicted earlier , the SMS infrastructure that's underpinning the Salik road toll in Dubai has been providing some unscheduled summ...

Well, as predicted, the papers were indeed filled with Salik yesterday. Every front page bar one had the story of the clear roads by the to...

Well, the papers should be full of this lot tomorrow. Dubai's congestion charge cuts in and it's certainly true that there's bee...

I was thinking about refusing to babble on about Salik, the Dubai congestion charge, any more simply because everyone's talking about it...

Most businesses I have spoken to about it haven’t got around to thinking about their policy regarding the Salik congestion charge yet. Which...

The near-hysterical tone of the chatter surrounding Dubai's controversial Salik (Arabic for 'clear') congestion charge has been ...

Mr. Ghulam the taxi driver is not at all happy about the Salik congestion charge (although, if we’re to believe Gulf News, neither’s anyon...

I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. Apologies to Gulf News , whose photo triggered this unworthy Friday thought. :)

Obviously based on a huge amount of entirely unhelpful speculation, here’s the FAQ that answers the questions that the official FAQ doesn’t ...