Saudi women will be allowed to drive taxies from June. Public Transport Authority or PTA is making provisions that would allow Saudi women to be taxi drivers.
Rumaih Al-Rumaih, chairman of the PTA told that currently rules and regulations are underway to enable Saudi women to drive taxis that will transport only female passengers. He also stated that the car rental offices will be completely localized. Authority is working with Ministry of Labour and Social Development to complete nationalization of jobs in public transport sector.
Identical guidelines leading the licensing of men who work in transportation will be applicable to women taxi drivers. The official announcement is still in halt. Uber and Careem have decided to hire women as cab drivers and have received thousands of applications.
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“We may hire over 10,000 female captains (drivers) by June 2018. Female captains will help us provide a better service to many women who want to travel but refuse to take cabs driven by men,” Abdullah Elyas, co-founder, and chief privacy officer at Careem told.
Uber’s general manager in Saudi Arabia, Zeid Hreish said, “We will partner with necessary stakeholders to facilitate the paperwork, training access, and access to vehicles, including access to driving schools run by third-party partners.”
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