Mass transportation development unanimously agreed: Kuwait

  • Date: 05-Aug-2022
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Kuwait
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Mass transportation development unanimously agreed: Kuwait

The Municipal Council Members have unanimously agreed on the need to develop the means of mass transportation in Kuwait to reduce traffic congestion in the streets, while finding new strategies that can be implemented and applied that support the proven and currently implemented solutions of building bridges, tunnels, etc., stressing that “the idea, if implemented, will succeed, but the matter needs seriousness, especially with recommendations in this regard within the fourth structural plan of the state,” reports Al-Rai daily.

In exclusive statements to the daily, the members called for launching awareness campaigns and motivational projects and unique monthly and annual discounts, through which people are urged to use public transportation instead of private cars, in order to reduce congestion and preserve the environment to reduce pollution emissions that result from traditional vehicles. The deputy head of the Municipal Council, Khaled Al-Mutairi, confirmed that the traffic congestion problem index is moving upward, and it is an existing crisis that increases with the increase in the population, and automatically with the increase in the number of cars, pointing to the inability of Kuwait’s streets to absorb, and the inability to keep pace with the development of most streets.

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He added that bridges and