I passed by the Gulf Road gas station to fill up when I spotted a bunch of young Kuwaiti guys and girls wearing fluorescent orange vests. One of the girls approached me and told me they were giving out this supplement pictured above called Mororiyat as part of traffic week. The supplement has a few articles on things you shouldn’t do and general driving tips. Not a bad initiative although I doubt a simple supplement would deter speeders from speeding. Plus most importantly, I didn’t find any article telling guys not to slow down in the middle of the Gulf Road to try and meet girls.
20 replies on “Mororiyat”
Mark, hope these are baby steps required for a driving culture change. great initiative.
“Who is Responsible of not Dropping off Students at the School Entrance?” Que?
yeah there’s a lot of that inside as well
I was wondering how come people were driving slower than usual today!! Thanks for reminding me about traffic week
true,just returneed from adelia,qortoba n max speed on damscus st. to the 30 max speed was100 on 30.alll r crawling today
If police would do the job for a while …..we have a law, we have a police, but no enforcement…..
Police??! What Police ?! Are you talking about those guys sitting in/next to police cruisers/bikes and smoking/talking on mobile not even paying attention to the traffic around them?? Sorry mate but this country has no real police force, just some jokers dressed in uniforms and chasing girls like all the other.
There is law but who will enforce it….hmmm …maybe they should bring some real police force from other countries….at least for few months.
LMAO
blackswan makes a valid point; police here tend to shy away from areas that need real traffic control; the biggest irony is beirut st (no offense mark :P), where the traffic lighta allow for only 2 moves (intersection), ud have people vehemently breakin the law and going fron qotaiba st to the exit onto the 40 (maghreb express), the irony is the POLICE station is right on that traffic light, if the look out their window they’ll see the law breakers..
kuwait needs new road systems, new infrastructure, how long have the roads been this way?
i was born and raised in kuwait, the only major changes i have seen in that time are the work done on the 5th (near jawazat roundabout), the salmiya streetlights (cant remember what they looked like before but i do remember when it was a desert all the way from marks and spencers to where aladdin used to be) and the 1st ring road.
there are more cars, faster cars and still..
There was a new interchange developed on 5th and 60, and road expansion projects from 7th onwards.
4th and 30 used to be a traffic light but now there is an overpass. So they are working on improving the roads but the roads aren’t the problem.
without law enforcement …. things will not change … IMHO
Oh no wonderrrrrrrrrr there was crawling traffic on all major highways last night. Dang…
check out bayan bilingual school in hawalli, they have a HUGE pavement made to be a drop off zone, but some foolish parents and drivers still insist on taking up one lane of the two lane street to make it easier for them to get to the 40. and the police station, again, is RIGHT DOWN THE STREET, its right next to the school.
American Creativity Academy, biggest bane on the 4th ring road, look at the traffic pile-up it causes daily.
ever realise how when schools ar eout on holiday the roads are MUCH clearer? parents need to be educated on how to drop off their kids, and the law should enforce this.
@iBlooogle:
It’s not just parents who need educating. Many families send drivers who are TOLD to drop the little ‘darlings’ right outside because they must not walk 50 metres. Triple-parking outside gets them a few metres closer!
Also, the helpful husbands and drivers of female staff who also seem incapable of walking a few metres. I swear they’d drive down the corridor to the classroom if they could!
you’re right Andy, if they could park outside the classrooms they would, that is why there must be a policeman parked outside the schools with zero tolerance.
i went to NES, they regulated the road very well, the guards outside ensured that students crossed at intervals and stopped the cars, bear in mind this street has 3 schools on it so it was always jam-packed.
these other schools hire security to just stand by the doors, and not attempt to help the students enter the premises.
the school should also do its part by sending home letters ordering the parents not to loiter around the school whilst droppin off their kids.
how many parents have u seen, drivers even, that just park their BATs (Big @$$ Trucks) haphazardly in the road so they can walk their kids/ charges to school?
a motorbike officer needs to stand guard near the school entrances and force parents to leave, with the assistance of school security guards who ensure the children enter the school premises safely.
there u go Mark, we just solved kuwait’s traffic problem on your blog.
want to change something? change the school timings. let the schools start by 9-9:30am. let the students have a lunch break at 12-12:30 instead of the usual breakfast break at 10:30(i dont know how it is now).
if you notice, majority of the traffics in the morning is due to school timings. life is so good when it comes to traffic in June, July and August.
if you change the school timings. then, the Govt and the Oil sector employees will leave to work by 6-6:30 coz they start working by 7max. price sector employees will be on the road between 7-8:30 as most of the companies start by 8 and some by 8:30, rarely any by 9.
the stores usually open by 10:00. but the employees have to reach by 9:30 if I’m not wrong. considering the fact that most of the store staff live near the store to save money..(thanks to the lower pay – and drivers license requirements) and most of them don’t generally own a car(coz they don’t have license) and take the public or private transport systems. I assume there won’t be as many vehicles on the road. so the perfect time for schools to start.
Where I come from, the schools start from 11:30am for kids in nursery upto 5th grade. and for 6th to 12th graders it starts from 10 in the morning. only the universities start from 7:30 in the morning.
Hence, in my personal opinion, I think they can reduce the traffic by a huge margin by tweaking the timings a little bit.
No parents would drop their small children on the street and leave. they want to see the child entering the class room. you can’t blame them for that. especially after Hawaaly ghost :p and the egyptian who attacked the kids in Indian School in Salmiya. that’s the parents way of satisfying theirself that their kid is safe. probably, the schools can have some parking space(an option) but then generally there are over 1,000 students in each school. parking space wont make much of a difference.
someone get Ashraf’s recommendation to the Ministry of Education STAT! i think that would solve all our driving woes!
also, relocate all schools to one area, enforce the rule that buses MUST stick to the right lane only, and not venture out as far as speeders lane.
The timing problem exacerbates during Ramadan.
has anyone thought of implementing school buses? i know there are school buses doing the rounds. but wouldn’t strictly implementing that bring down most of the traffic?
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That’s my work 😀 I’m glad, actually cant believe, tht someone read it!
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