Trucks banned from Cairo's main streets during daytime hours

[DJKeefy]

Cairo’s Central Traffic Department (CTA) announced Saturday that trucks won’t be allowed in the capital’s main streets during daytime hours, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

The move is intended to ease traffic jams, for which Cairo is renowned.

Cairo’s CTA will start street campaigns and use mobile microphones to alert truck drivers to the new decision. Checkpoints will be set up on major streets and bridges to prevent the passage of trucks.

Checkpoints will also apprehend truck drivers violating the ruling, allowing for legal action against them.

The new truck regulation is one of a series of aimed to eliminate chaos in Egyptian streets. Recently, a stricter traffic law was declared, granting hefty punishments to violators.

There have also been moves to relocate street vendors from Downtown Cairo streets to ease traffic congestion.

Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/108069.aspx

[HEPZIBAH]

Wish they'd do that in my little corner of England's green and pleasant land. Our tiny one way system is always a nightmare and not improved since they built the M3 around us. Trucks still find themselves in the centre, whether making deliveries there (which I think is officially on a time restriction these days) or not.

Good luck Cairo, I hope it works for you.

[Dusak]

So now large swathes of Cairo will have a hundred trucks an hour pounding and horn blasting their way through these streets at kip time. No doubt that the population of those areas will accept this without complaint.