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Road operations and maintenance department teams from the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) installed 8,600 units of streetlights and as many lighting columns along 250km of internal roads spread over several areas in the previous year, according to a report carried in the annual magazine of Ashghal. |
New lights were installed in places such as Al Shamal, Ain Khaled, Al Kheesa, Al Khor, Al Sadd, Al Aziziya, Duhail, Freej Kulaib, Al Gharafa, Al Mamoura and Dafna, among others, it said.
Besides, more than 1,000 lights spread over 30km were replaced. New lights were also installed at newly built truck parks in Al Khor, Umm Slal, Al Kharana and Al Wakrah.
Repairs were carried out on more than 12,000 lamp posts, it said, adding that the department also attended to and resolved more than 500 contact centre complaints.
The authority has introduced a new concept of performance-based strategic operations, the first contract of which was awarded for the Salwa and Dukhan highways for approximately QR200mn.
The contract was completed within a year and remarkable improvements in health and safety standards were observed by adopting some of the best international practices.
The report also informed that a safety zone improvement programme was implemented near 200 schools across Doha.
As part of implementing the programme, vehicles passing through the neighbourhood of those schools have been allowed a maximum speed limit of 30kmph.
The schools were told to set up standardised gateway approaches and formal parking bays on adjacent roads, and provide central medians to prevent U-turns or vehicular collisions, pedestrian crossings to link the school entrance with parking bays, footways along the school perimeter and on the rear side of parking bays for the safety of pedestrians and roundabouts to help motorists exit the main road.
