In a rare gesture by an official of high ranking, Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Housing Affairs Dr. Jenan Boushehri apologized to the Kuwaiti people and residents of the country for the damage on the roads.
The action plan to repair the roads is proceeding rapidly, the minister said, however, she indicated that the competent authorities were carefully and closely checking specifications of the repair materials to avert recurrence of an identical problem in the future. [Source]
Finally! Not only are the roads gonna get fixed, but the new mixture they’ll be using for the tarmac will also hopefully solve the flying gravel issue in the long run.
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“A rare gesture…” lol oh Kuwait
That
I don’t want to sound pessimistic but my hopes aren’t too high for this resurfacing either. It seems rushed, despite them having since the start of December…
They will half-ass this like they do with everything else. Not being pessimistic. Just realistic.
Mark, what happened to Shaab Park?
Mark, may I know why you don’t want to talk about Shaab Park?
LoL…. wtf
I’m keeping my hopes up. Just busted my third (!) tire this morning in spite of being extra careful. 🙁 It came on to me from the sun just like kamikaze.
That’s cool and all but, who’s going to pay me 1200 kd for repair lol.
Holy shmoly 1200? What happened?
Poor road led me to two accidents and it cost 250 in repairs too 🙁
Could both of you do us a huge favor by telling us which roads caused those accidents for you in the hopes that we could all avoid them?
6th ring road both directions till Doha connection, they fixed the holes a month ago, well trenches are better description for them, co worker went over one before jeelyb broke something in the steering wheel flipped his car, damaged a disk in his neck and had it removed from his throat.
Oh no! I live by the 6th ring road.
We ought to all collaborate and make an app that shows the worst roads and where the giant potholes are. An interactive map with user generated content.
As someone said: your going to have to put the whole map of Kuwait
Use Waze, it’s already there since ages.
Cracked front bumper, 2 rims, one tire, and complete set of wheel bearings fun time
Are we all goldfish with 3 seconds of memory? Thank the good Lord for the interwebz.
Here’s a fun article from 2016:
Kuwait working on ‘re-paving’ roads with asphalt of higher solidity, quality
https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwait-working-on-re-paving-roads-with-asphalt-of-higher-solidity-quality/
Here’s a joyous article from 2014:
Probe into Asphalt Road Problems
https://www.pressreader.com/kuwait/kuwait-times/20140113/281633893088791
and here’s a heartwarming article from 2014:
Asphalt Issues Roiling on
https://www.pressreader.com/kuwait/kuwait-times/20140114/281642483025744
Naive people deserve what they get.
Excellent detective work. I was getting all goosebumps that shit man finally Kuwait is being accountable. But nah, this was just a nice apology and we’ll be back to normal scheduled programme. *dies by pebble*
A rock flew and hit my neck on the road while driving on road 40!
I no longer put my windows down which sucks because the weather right now is divine.
A week ago they officially announced there was nothing wrong with the mixture.
Yea I read it in the papers too, and in fact I do think they are correct. They said that the way it was installed and paved that was the problem, something along the lines of cutting corners and unskillled operation when putting it on the roads.
And yes that does make sense, I mean this asphalt mixture is definitely used in other countries without having our problems.
Yeah, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the roads it’s just us driving crappy cars with Chinese tires.
Fucked up, just blew my tire on a hole in the gulf road after the Bida road about. Stupid stupidity how are they thinking. No warning signs, no nothing. And it is going to cost me 65KD, because some lazy idiot who have no clue what he is doing.
40 more days I am leaving this country, it can no go fast enough.
Thanks for letting us know where the hole is that caused your accident!
Good luck with the next chapter of your life!
Not* go
Interesting comment, I’m moving to Kuwait with my family in the summer, and have just stumbled on this site? Blog? Whatever, it’s excellent. But why 2:48am?
Anyway – for your info I live in the UK and between myself and my wife we’ve blown six tyres in a year on holes in the road……
Just mentioning it……
God I love Britons
Could we please not kiss the asses of White people (gringos, goras, snowflakes) for just one second?
White Privilege is bad enough in Kuwait as it is.
That comment would be even more fucked up if it came from an Indian or a Pakistani.
How do you know that Andrew is white? You do realise that there are a lot of brits that originate from all over the world, this includes large South Asian communities such as Bradford and Birmingham. I highly recommend that you hold a protest outside the East India tea company at the avenues, if makes you feel better.
The East India Company store is owned by an Indian in a move that activists call “reclaiming”.
Don’t you school me girl.
So when you “reclaim”, suddenly all the disgusting shit that company did is forgiven and whitewashed.
Sanjiv Mehta has reclaimed the name, not the acts or history.
When black people reclaimed the “N” word by calling each other that affectionately, it does not mean they’re reclaiming all the millions of enslaved Black Americans and their lynching and raping and so on. They are just reclaiming the word.
Similarly, when gay people reclaimed the word “queer”, they are not reclaiming their killing, the hatred directed towards them etc and so on.
They’re all merely reclaiming words, not acts. This is not whitewashing. Look up whitewashing.
why would you say that? Do you classify arabs as white? Anyway white privelege does not exist…
It’s because he came up with the blog at 2:48am on a random day.
Also, WELCOME.
Also, GOOD LUCK LOL!
Hello from York
At some point after arriving at into Kuwait you will be informed of a place that goes by the name of “saveco”, there you will find “all the British goods your heart desires”. You are to avoid that place like the plague or northern rail (whichever brings more misery and despair) in that establishment the only British foods you will find are those of Tesco’s and they will be at Waitrose duchy prices (we aren’t talking Tesco finest quality either). Contrary to the name there will be no savings done in that retching building what so ever. Ensure that you stay away, if you find yourself unknowningly driving towards it then evasive manoeuvres are advised to evade it, even if it means running over civilians. Also if you are flying in with BA avoid the chicken, it is vile.
Thank you Dame Judi Dench.
She was born in york, we have a massive portrait of her at my accommodation’s lobby. Sadly I’m not trying to be her, university has broken me and enforces “good English language” to hide the fact that it is at the ass-end of the Russell Group.
Minsiter can say all what she wants to please everyone. Actual inspection / approval is done by others in the ministry.
“In a rare gesture by an official of high ranking”
The issue with this statement is that it was probably reviewed and approved by the official of high ranking and her 6 secretaries.
Hopefully, once the roads are fixed, I can change the windshield of my wrangler.
Everyone is so cynical, Im sure that apology was sincere, along with their elatedness that the tinder for the roadwork was awarded to their cousins company.