General Directorate of Traffic launches ‘Back to School’ drive – The Peninsula

General Directorate of Traffic launches ‘Back to School’ drive – The Peninsula

Doha: General Directorate of Traffic (GDT) yesterday launched its back to school campaign ,coinciding with the start of the new academic year.

The campaign, which involves the entire areas and schools across the state of Qatar, intends to essentially raise traffic awareness of students and urge them to further adhere to the traffic safety values through several events and activities prepared by GDT that would continue during the whole year.

Director of Traffic Awareness Department Brigadier Mohammed Radi Al Hajri clarified that GDT embarked today on implementing a comprehensive plan to secure vehicle traffic coinciding with the onset of the new academic year and through the intensification of traffic patrols in the entire streets and key intersections, including school perimeters in all areas across Qatar, noting that the first day of the new academic year did not witness any reported traffic accidents, but only slight traffic congestions in the vicinity of some schools, however, traffic personnel were able to maintain traffic flow and had subsequently handled these traffic congestions, affirming that GDT would continue to intensify the traffic patrols during the whole year to reduce traffic accidents and ensure the arrival of the students to schools in a timely manner, in addition