Includes 4 axes to develop long-term solutions

Dubai Roads implements a plan to reduce traffic congestion around schools

Dubai Roads encourages the use of buses instead of private vehicles.

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The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai has revealed its intention to implement a long-term plan to make rapid traffic improvements in front of schools, which experience congestion in the surrounding streets.

This came in the authority's response to a question for "Emirates Today" about the most important solutions that the authority can take to solve the problems of congestion in the areas surrounding schools on a daily basis, especially in the morning hours when school starts, and the times of students leaving at noon via buses and private vehicles.

The authority did not disclose the details of the plan or the number of those areas, stressing that it is based on a number of axes in dealing with the problem of overcrowding in schools, including four axes, including traffic improvements, school transport policies, traffic control, and traffic awareness.

The authority explained that the traffic improvements axis is concerned with monitoring traffic in front of schools, and conducting traffic studies to find topical solutions to improve traffic on a daily basis, pointing out that the results it reached through monitoring and control during the recent period, prompted the authority to take a decision to implement a plan for rapid traffic improvements. , brings long-term benefits, in the school districts with the highest rate of traffic congestion.

She pointed out that the axis of school transport policies focuses on conducting periodic reviews of the policies and mechanisms used in the provision of school transport, with the aim of overcoming difficulties and facing the challenges associated with them, with the aim of encouraging the use of buses as a first option instead of private vehicles.

She added that the third axis relates to traffic control, which is applied in cooperation and joint work with Dubai Police and school administrations to facilitate and organize traffic in front of schools, and intensify traffic control and control that monitors violations and imposes violations on perpetrators of wrong practices.

The authority stated that the traffic awareness axis contributes to reducing erroneous practices that cause an increase in congestion in front of schools, noting that it has implemented campaigns to educate students' families, about traffic instructions, and avoid wrong behaviors, such as standing on sidewalks and roads to load and unload students.

The authority stressed the need for parents to abide by traffic and traffic regulations and traffic safety rules when delivering children to schools or taking them from them, because committing wrong traffic behaviors generally affects traffic and the safety of road users.

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Dubai Roads called on parents to abide by traffic regulations when delivering children to schools.

Make rapid traffic improvements in school areas and periodically review the mechanisms used in providing school transportation. 

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