GoogleEarth Map of Speed Cameras in Kuwait
From this morning’s mail, a most valuable tool for money-saving:
AdventureMan tells me in Doha, Qatar, there are now speed cameras everywhere, and the fines are HUGE. Like $2000 for speeding, and they have the picture to prove it. He also tells me the law is applied against everyone, from the highest to the lowest, so that there is a lot less speeding and weaving than we see in Kuwait. I wonder how it is going to work here?
I read in yesterday’s paper, in Jahra, a driver deliberately hit one of the cameras with his car! I wonder if the camera was able to capture the incident before its demise? (It said the culprit was arrested, I think.)
We were out in the Wild West last night (Fehaheel) and a police car was trying to get to a huge traffic snarl. He blurped and burbled, he shouted in his loudspeaker, and nobody let him in. There was no respect for the traffic police, no fear. People just looked after their own interests. Fortunately, it was all at a very low speed, as traffic was jammed tight. There WAS room to let the police car in, but nobody did. I wonder how it would have worked if he had a camera? Or started giving tickets?
Doesn’t Kuwait need a call-in, or e-mail in place where you can take photos of traffic things happening and report violators, like those guys who think they own the emergency lanes when traffic is backed up, or who think the handicapped spots are for them (one told me “but when there is no one parking there, anyone can use it!”) to use – it would be so nice to be able to take a photo and send it in to the authorities and to believe that something would be done about it.
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From Qatar … a friend went to register her car last week and found she had a QR10,000 fine for turning right on a red … from last August. She had no idea that the fine was outstanding and so the bulk of that was penalty for being late in paying. Apparently it is the driver’s responsibility to check the website to see if there are violations caught on camera. Since the main reason they put these fines and cameras in place was to reduce the carnage on the roads, I am surprised by some of their decisions on what the most serious infractions are … but hopefully people will become more mind-full of their driving. I had heard that the traffic in Kuwait was much worse than the traffic here, but it still seems fierce to me.
This map will really come in handy!!! Thanks.
No kidding, Sheila – QR 10,000, that’s almost $3000! Turning right on a red? I thought that was ALLOWED! Holy smokes . . .
Traffic here is WORSE than Qatar. Trust me.
You are welcome, Mario.
You can download the files to install it on your GPS devices from my site:
http://www.2by4.org/content/2008/04/17/all-the-speed-cameras-in-kuwait/
Here is the direct linke to the map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2F2by4.org%2Fwp-content%2Fcam3.kml&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=29.309154,47.958755&spn=0.262252,0.6427&z=11
I love technology! Thank you, Nibaq!
Hey I just came back from Kuwait in December. I am doing a report for college course I am taking. “Speeding in Kuwait and the state I live in”. Can you give me some sites to visit? It’s for a Statistics College Course.
Wild Bill: Here is one:
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MjYyOTAzMzI0
I googled “car accidents in Kuwait” and there are 245,000 entries! I think you will have plenty of resources to write your paper.
Hard and fast statistics are not that easy to come by. I am told Kuwait is in the Guiness Book of Records for the Fehaheel Road, the highest rate of fatal accidents per km in the world.
Here is another blog entry with the laws and their penalties:
https://intlxpatr.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/new-kuwait-traffic-fines/
but unless a law is enforced, there is no impact. Few in Kuwait are paying attention to any of these laws, and I never see anyone, ever, pulled over for anything. You see people on their mobile phones and you see them texting (and all over the road, outside their lanes, etc.) Oh! Don’t get me started!