Working on a meal system during official hours increases citizens’ dissatisfaction: crowding will in

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[size=52]Working on a meal system during official hours increases citizens’ dissatisfaction: crowding will increase[/size]

[size=45]Bright news[/size]
[size=45]Many citizens were upset when they heard the government's recommendations regarding changing employee working hours and dividing them into meals to reduce traffic congestion.[/size]
[size=45]The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers decided to prepare a new list of timings for the start and end of official working hours for employees of ministries, state departments, and university and school students. Accordingly, official working hours will start from 7 a.m. until six p.m. in batches, and school hours will be at 7:30 a.m.[/size]
[size=45]The problem is not timing[/size]
[size=45]The government’s decision to change official working hours in ministries and state institutions due to traffic congestion faced widespread criticism from employees. Citizen Hassan Nahi (45 years old) confirmed to (Al-Mada), “This decision is incorrect and must be retracted because it does not serve the Iraqi citizen and will increase the difficulties of the roads.” And its crowds.” Pointing out, “The problem is not the timing itself, but rather the large number of vehicles in the capital, in addition to the lack of alternative routes for citizens to take to their workplaces.”[/size]
[size=45]University student Ali Hamid, in turn, explained to Al Mada that he has a choice when he arrives at his university. According to him, he either arrives very early or very late, and this causes him many obstacles that affect his education. He added, “Manipulating the official working hours is an ill-considered decision, and the government had to move towards dropping some vehicle models or preparing alternative methods to solve this permanent crisis.”[/size]
[size=45]3 solutions[/size]
[size=45]The spokesman for the General Traffic Directorate, Brigadier General Ziad Al-Qaisi, explained in a statement to (Al-Mada), “One of the proposals to solve the problem of traffic congestion is to change working hours through the committee formed by order and direction of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani and under the supervision of the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Transport, Justice and Trade and the Minister Reconstruction, Housing, and the Mayor of Baghdad, and this committee consists of these relevant ministries and departments, and each department, during the continuous meetings, gave some kind of solutions, and thus an agreement was reached on immediate solutions, near-term solutions, and long-term solutions.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Qaisi adds, “The immediate solutions are to enforce the traffic law, especially on violations that cause traffic congestion, including prohibited and slanted parking, driving in the opposite direction, or non-compliance with traffic signals, whether light or manual.” He added, “As for the short-term solutions, they are changing working hours, working on river taxis, and also working to encourage citizens to take public transportation vehicles. As for the long-term, it is the reconstruction revolution that we are currently witnessing in Baghdad Governorate, from building bridges, constructing, paving and paving roads, as well as lifting controls in Baghdad Governorate.” To facilitate walking and traffic.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Qaisi asserts, “Changing official working hours will bring about a slowdown in street movement because all colleges, institutes, schools, and jobs all go to their workplaces around eight in the morning, but the citizen leaves his home at six-thirty in the morning and arrives at his workplace at eight in the morning.” Therefore, if the time of entry of employees and students to their universities and departments is changed, the entry times will be distributed to three hours, and thus we will obtain a smooth flow of traffic, and this is one of the suggestions of the General Traffic Directorate.”[/size]
[size=45]Successful examples[/size]
[size=45]The Ministry of Education announced that changing the official working hours in educational institutions and schools will be announced in due course.[/size]
[size=45]The ministry said in a brief statement received by Al-Mada, “Any amendment to the working hours of schools and educational institutions will be announced in due time.”[/size]
[size=45]Engineer Adnan Mazloum, an expert in roads and bridges, explained to Al-Mada that “congestion relief projects will take a long time because they are complex projects, in addition to the fact that they are not all that is required, but rather part of it and the first package of the congestion relief project, and the state had to think about all the procedures and begin.” It is the cheapest and easiest procedure, such as making traffic in some streets one-way, and this increases the efficiency of the road by 20 to 40 percent. Even in bridges, there will be bridges to go and others to go, and we have successful examples of this, such as the Bridge of Martyrs and Freemen, and it is possible that there will be a committee to make The streets go in one direction, and this reduces road congestion significantly, in addition to implementing strict traffic regulations, such as the issue of conditional parking and turns, and also on the issue of (bicycles and motorcycles) that use all the streets that were supposed to be prohibited from traveling on the main roads.” .[/size]
[size=45]Ring Road No. 4[/size]
[size=45]Mazloum adds, “As a member of the Traffic Congestion Committee at the Engineers Syndicate, we prepared a lengthy report and presented it to higher authorities. Among the solutions was to encourage mass transportation, which had become completely neglected. In the 1970s, there were more than 70 mass transit lines in the capital at that time, so why not invest Rapid transit or the metro, which will solve many problems and which does not cost the state more than $8 billion, in addition to the sky train, all of which contribute to eliminating traffic congestion, and we also need to educate the citizen.”[/size]
[size=45]Mazloum continues his speech to (Al-Mada), saying, “There is another solution, which is Ring Road No. 4, which is obligatory to implement and all services must be transferred on it, because this is a 94-kilometre-long road that surrounds Baghdad, so if we transfer all the ministries and all commercial, exhibition and industrial activity Including Shorja, this road will be outside Baghdad, and inside Baghdad will be free of traffic jams. The traffic chaos in Shorja is unparalleled, and the state must work in all directions and create an alternative to solve this problem.”[/size]
[size=45]The road and bridge expert continues, “The issue of changing official working hours that was recommended by the Council of Ministers is a complex and confusing decision. It was necessary to divide three groups, which are specific ministries. It is not possible to reduce working hours in service departments and ministries, as the citizen It needs a period of 10 to 12 hours a day, like the Baghdad Municipality, and there is another solution, which is to suspend ministries on certain days at the expense of the working hours of other ministries.”[/size]
[size=45]The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers had circulated its recommendations to ministries and agencies not affiliated with a ministry, by dividing the ministries and agencies into six groups, and dividing shifts into categories from 7 to 2 p.m., or from eight to three in the afternoon, or from nine in the morning to four in the afternoon. As for some ministries and categories, they have A type of working hours that starts from ten in the morning until six in the evening.[/size]
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