Population density affecting traffic in Kuwait

This is really interesting. In a small country like Kuwait with a relatively "low" populationn density relative to countries like Egypt a new article published in the Kuwait Times newspaper has indicated the impact of "high" population density on traffic in Kuwait.

KUWAIT: By 2008, the population density in Kuwait would exceed the road network's capacity, said Kuwait Municipality's Director-General Mohammad Eid Al-Nassar. In a study, released on Thursday, regarding the development of Kuwait's road network, Al-Nassar noted that according to

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's structural plan for 2003-2004, the population would reach a total of 2.8 million people by 2008, but it has already exceeded three million.
The report included information regarding the cost and duration of developing the network, as well as the necessity of enlarging

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's residential areas to ease the pressure on traffic and services which were already affected.
The network has reached the state of overload which requires utilising means of mass transportation to limit traffic jams, especially at the end of school and work days, he added.
Increasing charges of parking vehicles and traffic tickets, devising a system to synchronize work and school hours, utilizing real-time "smart management" for traffic, in addition to devising a plan to encourage using public transport would play a great role in solving this problem, he explained.
Developing Fahaheel motorway's connection with the Sixth Ring Road, he said, would take 24 months with a total cost of over KD 50 million.
He said other developments suggested by the study included the airport's road, Damascus Street, Morocco Road, King Faisal Road, as well as the Second, Third, Sixth and Seventh Ring Roads with a combined cost of over KD 140 million.
Developing the road network, he noted, came in accordance with residential expansion and the plan suggested by the state's structural plan for 2005