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    "Promises of great development"... Baghdad's streets groan from neglect and exhaust their residents

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    Post by Rocky Sat 21 Oct 2023, 4:18 am

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    Baghdad today - Baghdad
    Neglect at the level of services and infrastructure affects the neighborhoods of the capital, Baghdad, as well as in other cities in Iraq, which still depend on roads built more than 30 years ago, a large number of which are considered invalid today, due to their lack of maintenance, rehabilitation, or renewal.
    Although the current Iraqi government formed a service team concerned with this matter, it began to focus its attention on the main streets, not the side ones, as well as the old alleys, especially in the heart of the capital. 
    In the commercial and residential neighborhoods there, Iraqis complain of a significant lack of services, especially in the areas of Karrada, Al-Mansour, Bab Al-Sharqi, Al-Bataween, Sheikh Omar, and Bab Al-Muadham.
    Sattar Fadel, Abu Ibrahim, has lived in the Al-Hurriya area (west of Baghdad) for 30 years. He complains that “water enters our homes in the winter, and dust eats away at our furniture in the summer.”
    He points out that “the Al-Hurriya area is one of the old areas, and it still depends on the roads that were initially built there, despite its expansion, and therefore it is in need of rehabilitation to suit the size of the expansion. In addition to this, the lack of development of sewage networks, which leads to... To constantly overflow.”
    Abu Ibrahim adds, “Baghdad Municipality teams carry out excavations and then leave the street as it is for long periods, so we, the people of the area, are forced to return it to what it was. Sometimes we collect money to repair the bumps that the Municipality left in front of our homes.”
    In turn, Firdaus, Umm Ali, a resident of the Karrada neighborhood (central Baghdad), suffers from the poor services of the Baghdad Municipality. She says, “Everyone saw the process of rehabilitating the main Karrada Street near Kahramana Square, and widespread controversy arose on social networking sites. While some people considered it a good step, others saw that what happened was an incomplete process, as it did not include the entire street and the side roads in the debt.” .
    The Karrada area is considered one of the most prominent areas of Baghdad on the commercial level, in addition to being a destination for visitors to the capital, due to its liveliness around the clock.
    Umm Ali confirms that “the Karrada area has been suffering from neglect for many years, and its streets, side roads, and buildings have not been rehabilitated,” noting that “the people of the area demanded that the paving operations include small and side streets, so as to avoid floods during the rainy season.”
    It is noteworthy that the Baghdad Municipality launched, last April, an integrated campaign that included surveys and field designs of the main and damaged streets in order to pave them, targeting four million square meters of the capital’s streets. 
    She stated in an official statement that her campaign “will include all sectors of municipal departments, and the Baghdadi citizen will notice a major development in the reality of the roads, in response to the directives of Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’ al-Sudani,” adding that the Mayor of Baghdad, Ammar Musa, intended to designate “a main street within the boundaries of each city.” A municipal department to transform it into a model street.”
    On the other hand, the main street in the Al-Shaab area, north of Baghdad, which connects the capital to the northern governorates, was rehabilitated and paved. However, approximately one week after its completion, it witnessed a major collapse and a large truck fell into it, which left negative reactions from citizens towards the parties that Works carried out.
    In this context, the engineer in the Roads and Bridges Directorate, Muhammad Al-Daini, speaks about the poor quality of materials used in paving the streets, attributing the reason to corruption and lack of oversight. 
    Al-Daini explains, “Companies that implement road paving projects provide a complete plan about the types of materials they will use, but they offer the best and highest quality types of asphalt while using another type that is of lower quality and less durable.”
    Al-Daini adds, “This saves a lot of money, in addition to ensuring the continuity of the companies’ work after ensuring the need for it on an annual basis. If the companies were working with the finest materials, road maintenance would not be necessary every year.”
    On the other hand, unqualified roads cause losses to citizens, in terms of damage to their vehicles. 
    Hussein, nicknamed Abu Ali, a car mechanic, says that not paving the side roads places a financial burden on the citizen. He added, "The side roads in most of Baghdad's areas have not been paved for years. Since the main streets suffer from traffic congestion, drivers, especially taxi drivers, are forced to take the side roads, and thus the wheels of their vehicles are damaged."

    Source: Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed
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