As a result of the absence of scientific planning and lack of reliance on expert opinions, and a misunderstanding of how to apply “flexible working hours”, most roads and streets came to a standstill, after vehicles continued to move at a snail’s pace and did not stop at a specific time in the morning or evening.
An informed security source told the daily “the application of flexible working hours with the beginning of the month of Ramadan contributed to an increase in the number of vehicles on the roads throughout the hours of the day, from the start of shifts in schools at 9:30 am, until after the end of the third shift, in addition to that the crowds and congestion in the streets at night, as people go to the markets, noting that the vehicles move relentlessly for 16 hours a day, and does not subside until midnight until the start of the morning shift, reports Al-Rai daily.
The source added, “The new situation put security men and traffic patrols on constant alert around the clock, after the matter was limited to specific hours before, as the crowds used to start with students going to schools and employees to their workplaces at one time, and then returning.”
The roads flowed to their normal state, but after applying the flexible working hours, which allowed each entity to choose the appropriate time for its employees’ working hours according to 3 shifts, a continuous movement of activity and a high density of vehicles reflected on all the streets of the country, which makes the idea of flexible working hours lose its purpose of achieving flexibility.
The source believed that “some patchwork solutions are not suitable to keep pace with the traffic crisis, and some serious steps must be taken in this regard, such as relying on mass transport, withdrawing driving licenses from those who do not meet the conditions, and setting fees on some highways, in addition to doing away with traffic lights.”
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