(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Members of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) have asked the Traffic Department to make clear requirements to be met by trailers and mini-utility trailers (attached to Land Cruisers) to reduce the number of road fatalities.
Councillors urged officials to specify weights supposed to be carried by bottom-dump trailers, especially after several deaths and cases of injuries resulting from accidents as trailers slid off the bottom.
They also demanded regulations to restrict such heavy trucks on some busy roads.
Jassim bin Abdullah Al Malki, Vice-Chairman, CMC, and Director, Services and Public Utilities Committee, said they had hosted a team from the Traffic Department and discussed the need to create awareness about risks posed by heavy trucks and carriers.
He said the use of carriers was especially common during the winter camping seasons as people go out with their cars to camping sites. He said not attaching well the carrier to the car or putting a heavier carrier it cannot not carry may lead to serious accidents.
Councillors also urged authorities to build air-conditioned bus stops and other shelters on roads and in public places to protect people from sunshine and rains.
The suggestion was tabled by Mohammed bin Saleh Al Hajri who represents Al Nasserya.
Although there are a few bus stops at some shopping centres with air-conditioned shelters, majority of bus stops across the country lack this basic facility, he said.
He said shelters in public places like mosques, markets and parks would benefit people visiting these places and not staying indoors or benefit shelter workers often found resting in unsheltered green areas during the mid-day break in the hot summer period. He said shelters should also have chairs and wherever possible air conditioners so those taking rests would feel comfortable.
Councillors, including Mohammed bin Shaheen Al Dosari, seconded the recommendation and said they had seen similar shelters in Malaysia and the UAE.
"All bus stops in Dubai are well sheltered and air-conditioned with lights at night," he said. "Such examples are very good to implement here."
Al Dosari also tabled a proposal for trucks transporting fruit and vegetables to be air-conditioned.
He said many fruit and vegetables being transported by ordinary trucks in the hot summer risk going bad and harming consumers.
He asked the Customs Department not to allow trucks with no specifications like air conditioners to bring in fruit and vegetables and make traders adhere to these basic safety rules for their products.
Other councillors suggested that there should be rules for carrying drinks and similar products in refrigerated trucks.
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