Limo app company Uber is offering you Dhs100 off your first Uber ride to GeekFest Dubai REUNION at Burj Park this evening. How about tha...

Image via Wikipedia You couldn't make it up, could you? Dubai, part of major oil producing nation the United Arab Emirates, has run out ...

Image by Leo Reynolds via Flickr Sharjah Transport has somewhat belatedly introduced a taxi booking service. As long suffering readers will...

Image via Wikipedia Today's edition of Dubai tabloid 7Days carries the Sharjah taxi driver's protest as its front page splash under ...

Image via Wikipedia We were happily wittering away on the radio this morning, running through the local news (which is normally what we do ...

Image by Moha' Al-Bastaki via Flickr When taxi fares went up in Sharjah earlier this month, none of the newspaper stories covering the ...

Image by Qiao-Da-Ye賽門譙大爺 via Flickr Sharjah taxi fares are on the rise again - today's papers  carry the joyous news that a minimum f...

Image via Wikipedia Regular cabbie Mr. G unable to take the booking, I was reduced to pot luck on the roadside. Unusually fragrant, today...

Image by gerry balding via Flickr Mr. G. tells me of a new iniquity being heaped on the heads of Sharjah’s already stressed-out cabbies. A ...

Image by Qiao-Da-Ye賽門譙大爺 via Flickr I have frequently posted in the past about my regular cabbie Mr. G and the iniquitous conditions th...

Image via Wikipedia I am fascinated by the emergence of a new border crossing between Dubai and Sharjah. As you likely know, a 20Dhs surchar...

Image by jtyerse via Flickr Mr G., our taxi driver, was more than usually lugubrious when he took us into Dubai this weekend. Times are har...

Image via Wikipedia Sarah's christened it 'The Inshallah Bus' because it will come when it comes. There's no actual timetabl...

So Sharjah taxis have implemented the Dhs20 surcharge for going to Dubai but, as far as I have seen, Dubai taxis have not implemented the c...

So Sarah's been trying to find a taxi service in Sharjah that has taxis and a service. This is not easy. She stumbled across this site ,...

With the car in the shop and Al Habtoor getting ready to take a significant chunk out of me in return for the usual skimdisksreplacebrakepad...

Right. Here comes a question I've been meaning to ask everyone I know for a while now... What is WRONG with ‘illegal taxis’? The Dubai R...

Mr Ghulam, a lugubrious sort at the best of times, drove me to work today. He was tired: his first fare of the day had been at 4am to Jebel ...

As Bill Gates’ visit to the Emirates dominates the newspapers, I’ve dropped my car to Al Habtoor in order that they can gouge me in the trad...

Mr. Ghulam, our regular taxi driver, knew the driver who was murdered last week in Ras Al Khaimah. He's a little sad and puzzled by it: ...