Parliamentarians filed a proposal in parliament to discuss traffic congestions problem in the next session.
MP Osama Al-Shaheen said that the proposal urged the public facilities’ committee to discuss the issue and come up with both short and long term solutions and to report with recommendations that will be discussed in May.
Kuwait is ranked fourth worldwide in the number of vehicles per kilometer, MP said. “Kuwait is experiencing a real dilemma, and over 85 percent of the road capacity is already used up,” he underlined, pointing out that Kuwait’s roads capacity is only for 600,000 vehicles, while the actual number is currently 1.6 million