I read a very interesting traffic field study made by AlQabas paper about the travel time for some popular road destinations in Kuwait, what they basically did is that they have measured the average travel (driving) time needed to reach a particular destination with and without congestion. They chose Shuwaikh as a reference point (because it’s the worst as long traffic jam is concerned), and they measured how long it takes a driver to reach Shuwaikh say when you are coming from Salmiya, Salwa, Bneid Gar…etc.
They found it takes around 11 minutes from Bneid Gar to Shuwaikh in case there’s no traffic congestion, but during rush hours it takes over 65 minutes to get to Shuwaikh! However, they did not consider whether someone is taking a shortcut to reach Shuwaikh. Nevertheless, I find such studies useful and can help greatly to develop solutions. Personally, I think the benefit of having traffic jams is that there will be less traffic accidents than if the road is free for crazy drivers to over speed and do insane maneuvers.
since we can’t resolve the problem so far, let’s focus on the bright side; less incident as u said
Positive thing about the traffic jams is that you can catch up on all the things that you would not be able to do while driving, calling and texting and keeping in touch and updating yourself…
Talking to the person sitting next to you, but what a way to make out time for relationships in our lives now!
But Alhumdulillaah, it will get better, leaving early has helped in the morning, coming back does take a lot of patience from all the drivers on the road.
The cause of traffic accidents is not the roads of Kuwait, its the drivers (all of them)
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“Personally, I think the benefit of having traffic jams is that there will be less traffic accidents than if the road is free for crazy drivers to over speed and do insane maneuvers”
Screw that, let those crazy drivers kill them selves and we’ll have less of them on the steets.
something has to be done for this heavy traffic.There might be a lot of people with important stuffs to do.Actually there is no point talking about it because its just increasing each day