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Mohammedia (Arabic: المحمدية, transcription: Al-Mohammadiya), formerly called Fédala, is a town in Morocco located...

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News 18 Feb 2013 2 min read

More than 4 million DH for road safety

Faced with the problem of road insecurity, the urban commune of Mohammedia has looked into identifying accident accumulation zones in order to identify dysfunctions and the deficit in terms of safety planning aimed at pedestrians.
More than 4 million DH for road safety

According to a commune official, good road safety management implies the coordination of all stakeholders and at different levels to achieve encouraging results. "Road insecurity remains a multidisciplinary and multisectoral problem," he stressed. The commune has launched various operations and, within the framework of securing the road space, has carried out projects at a cost of 4,277,844 DH to participate in improving road safety and organising road traffic. In this wake, the commune has targeted black spots. Thus, ten roundabouts have been created, seven at the level of Ryad Boulevard, 6 km long with a high density of traffic, which has reduced the number of accidents and allowed for better traffic flow. Three new roundabouts have also been designed at the level of Al Moukawama Boulevard, of equal importance. The commune has, moreover, targeted signage and has installed three new red lights at the intersections of Al Moukawama, Monastir, My Rachid, M43, and Moulay Youssef boulevards. "Despite all these efforts, the concept of safety on the public highway designed to modify the inadequate behaviour of certain users has not had the expected effect; the majority of accidents are attributed to certain drivers who are little concerned with respecting the Highway Code. Road traffic systems are complex and dangerous because they call upon various parameters linked to the trilogy of man, infrastructure, and vehicle," underlines an academic. According to associative actors in the city, whatever the technical or technological advances, the result of the road insecurity equation should tend towards a global securing of public space: "Any effort, however, must be accompanied by communication and information campaigns to incite road users to more vigilance and caution." It should be noted that the problem of road insecurity still arises acutely in Mohammedia, notably at the level of the section of the Resistance Boulevard between Msalla and the intersection with Hassan II Boulevard. It is especially at the level of the intersections of Al Moukawama, Hassan Al Aoual, and Al Qods boulevards, near many schools, that the majority of accidents occur, hence the need for traffic lights and roundabouts.

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