Traffic Congestion To Be Eased By 2018

Kuwait's pending traffic congestion will be solved by 2018, the Ministry of Public Works Undersecretary Awatif Al-Ghniem speculated on Monday.

She added, on the fringes of an annual conference for public roads, that many highways and bridges projects are undergoing and they will relieve traffic flow once they are completed by the next few years.

On his part, Assistant Undersecretary at the Ministry's roads engineering department Ahmad Al-Hassan pointed out that these undergoing projects are taking into consideration the country's growing population and its urban expansion.

He also added that the Ministry is working side by side with other concerned government bodies to make the completion of these projects as convenient as possible for both contracting companies and the public.

Source - KUNA