Stickers on streetlights don’t issue fines!
dubai — Have you seen messages on social media platforms about Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) deploying ‘smart sensors’ in the form of stickers pasted on street lights?
However, the RTA has dismissed the rumours that have been doing the rounds for a while.
The viral message, which has an official looking document with it, states that ‘smart sensors’ are a new
Stickers on the poles of the pedestrian crossings’ traffic lights are part of the RTA’s asset management system that tracks and monitor all its assets.” RTA statement
drive by the RTA to clamp down on jaywalkers. The message claims that the smart sensor stickers capture the details of jaywalkers via their Emirates ID in their wallets before sending them a Dh420 fine. In a separate statement to Khaleej Times earlier, the RTA, however, clarified that “the stickers on the poles of the pedestrian crossings’ traffic lights are part of the RTA’s asset management system that tracks and monitor all its assets”.
The statement denied the rumour that the stickers have anything to do with “issuing fines at pedestrian crossings”.
Khaleej Times has also accessed an email the authority sent to a concerned resident, in which it dismissed the viral message as “fake”. “It’s not an official RTA information. These stickers are only serial number for each post,” the email read.
In response to Netizens’ concerns, the RTA also tweeted an explanation recently. “The RTA would like to clarify to the public that the stickers on the poles of the pedestrian crossings traffic lights are part of the RTA’s asset management system that tracks all its assets,” the authority tweeted.