mikewot

The head of Dubai Traffic Police has conceded the force is a long way off its target of zero deaths by 2020, as the number of people killed on emirate’s roads so far this year has almost doubled compared with the same period for 2012.
General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen said there were 101 fatalities on the highways during the first seven months of 2013, against 55 last year. He said: “This figure is shocking. It goes against our strategy of reducing the number of deaths to zero by 2020. The number had been decreasing since 2008.”
http://www.7daysindubai.com/Dubai-tr...ail/story.html

How did they ever think they'd reduce the number when there is zero on an awareness campaign, zero traffic education i.e. posters, videos, adverts and zero police presence apart from speed cameras?

Kix

Dash-cams and a site where you can upload the videos without worrying about the consequences, no blurred out number plates or faces.

Brains1983

there's that big **** off sign next to Jebel Ali saying no road deaths by 2020.

What else do you want?

shiva

The cultural shift needed for this to happen is so large as to be impossible.

Nice idea

No ****ing chance

mikewot

Thats the thing for me, General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen sounds like Martin Luther King "I have a dream", yes great but where's the plan?

shiva

Plan

Really

You expect there to be an actual plan behind any of these

Come on you've been here long enough. Ill put it down to not enough coffee this morning

jam25mack

They could start with banning locals from the roads..... that would drop the number significantly.

Kix

Weirdly enough, Pakistanis and Indians kill the most, so should we ban them too?

jam25mack

Not really that weird when you consider the population percentages. However, should we ban them.... **** it, why not!

Although they are allowed on mopeds/bikes to make deliveries.

Bahtatboy

They tend to fall into 3 categories:

Arrogant, look-at-me-I'm-an-executive-without-a-briefcase-that's-bigger-than-me middle managers who believe they're kings of the road in their Prados

Pushy mothers, wives of the above.

The rest who believe that driving on big roads among fast cars is no different from mixing it with tak-taks and whole families on 50cc Hondas in Calcutta.

scrubbedexpat141

Yep, absolutely.

Three distinct categories there which cannot be disagreed with.

My favourite SZR move is the flashy lights, on the bumper, get out the ****ing way presence....when there's traffic all moving at 100 and nobody can actually go faster. I like that a lot. This normally results in a 10-second windscreen wash to cover their shiny G-Wagon.

Meow

Apart from the tailgaters who seem to think my car can levitate, my pet hate is the driver who pootles along in the middle lanes of SZR at 80kph totally oblivious to the fact they are in the wrong lane. Usually a crappy Sunny type saloon. I'm not mentioning race, but no need really.

scrubbedexpat141

Oooh good one.

If lane 1 is the slowest out to lane 6 being the fastest then anyone in 3,4 or 5 doing anything below 100 (traffic permitting) should be banned.

Sandboy

tidied

Bahtatboy

Surely all it needs is a website hosted outside the GCC, and for people to post stuff anonymously. And then for someone to feed the stuff to the police and press frequently--surely they'd have to sit up, notice and take action at some point.