DOHA: Motorists should not expect any reprieve from the frustrating traffic jams on the city roads in at least four years to come, warns a top traffic official.
“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 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.
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