RTA receives traffic awareness ambassadors on ‘Day for Dubai’ initiative

The Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, in Dubai has received volunteers of the ‘Day for Dubai’ initiative launched by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council.

The initiative aims at embedding the culture of volunteering by encouraging community members to devote at least one day of the year for volunteering activities.

The step, which is coordinated with the administrators of the initiative and a host of volunteers with the aim of supporting the traffic movement in Dubai, was named ‘Traffic Awareness Ambassadors’.

Maitha bin Adai, CEO of the Traffic and Roads Agency, said, “Since the launch of the initiative by the end of 2017, the Agency was engaged in coordination with the concerned bodies of the ‘Day for Dubai’ initiative. It has been agreed upon to open volunteering channels for delivering the RTA’s business such as improving the traffic safety level in Dubai. The Agency has received more than 70 volunteering applications for promoting traffic awareness of community members.

“The Agency has held meetings with volunteers in the RTA’s Head Office and thanked them for their interactions with the issues raised. It explained to them the ‘Traffic Awareness Ambassadors’ initiative in a bid to broadcast the traffic awareness messages to the largest possible number of community members. It will prepare a monthly awareness message and circulate it to volunteers such that they will repost it via social media channels to their friends and associates. The most active individuals in this regard will be rewarded in coordination with the ‘Day for Dubai’ initiative,” she concluded.