Driving in Qatar: Don't expect traffic jams to reduce for another 4 years
Motorists should not expect any relief from the frustrating traffic jams on the city roads for at least another four years. In fact it may only get worse.
"It wouldn't take less than four years for the traffic snarls on Doha roads to ease," Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Kharji, Director of the Traffic Department, told Arabic daily Al Sharq.
He said while Al Rayyan road upgrade project, which is part of the Expressway Programme was going to be completed soon on time, the Lusail City project will take two years to finish.
The Sharq Crossing Programme (which comprises West Bay Bridge, Cultural City Bridge, Sharq Bridge and submerged tunnel links) is expected to be completed in 2018.
Unless these projects are over traffic jams will continue on the roads in Doha, the daily quoted Al Kharji as saying.
New vehicles are coming on the roads in large numbers by the day and the roads with limited capacity are unable to accommodate them.
"So efforts are being made to ease congestions on the roads." He urged office-goers to not use their cars in Al Dafna area and instead use free bus shuttle services. [The Peninsula]
Managed and disciplined public transportation is the key to this problem.
You've obviously not visited Birmingham or Los Angeles :(
Also flyovers make the city more beautiful!
QATAR CAN BUILD/ CONSTRUCT FLYOVERS IF THEY WISH TO DO SO FOR SEAMLESS TRAFFIC / TO GET RID FROM TRAFFIC JAMS................................
I thought the Sharq Crossing was cancelled/on hold
Qatar need bus stops in all the routes with frequent buses. Certainly people would rely on public transport.
I'll take on the LCs and Rizks' Tuk-Tuk
that is the reality..traffic jam everywhere.
4 years...and another 4-years....and another 4 years......and forever! good thing, I maybe out of Qatar for that 1st span. :P
@Quicky Thank you master of the obvious.
@britexpat Bicycle vs Land cruiser no thanks.
@britexpat Bicycle vs Land cruiser no thanks.
4 years is a long time, ah.
This is why I'm going to cycle everywhere