Fines for Heavy Trucks entering Doha without permission

No heavy trucks will be allowed to enter Doha from December 15 without the traffic police's permission after a temporary bypass road dedicated to them was opened yesterday.

All trucks will use a Temporary Truck Route (TTR) on the Salwa — Lusail road stretching 41km, which was opened by Public Works Authority yesterday.

Brig Mohammed AbdulRahman Marafia, Director of Traffic and Road Safety, said an awareness campaign has been launched to keep heavy trucks outside the city and reduce traffic congestion.

Traffic patrols will book trucks entering Doha without permission from the traffic department. The fine for the violation is QR500.

The new TTR has been launched to improve the traffic flow in Doha and divert incoming transit traffic between the north and south of the country out of the city. The announcements were made at a press meet at Ashghal headquarters yesterday after which media persons were shown the new road.

The TTR connects Salwa Road west of the Industrial Area with Lusail Development. The TTR also merges with the 23km Salwa — Mesaieed (Route 55) that opened last year, forming a temporary rural road stretching 64km west of Doha city to reduce traffic congestion between Mesaieed in the south and Lusail in the north.

The new road will also reduce traffic flow to and from Al Khor, Al Shamal, and Dukhan passing through the Industrial Area, Mesaieed and the south. This will dramatically ease congestion on Doha's main streets that served as a main route for heavy vehicles and trucks, he said.

"The TTR is one of the most important projects executed by the authority's Road Projects Department to reduce traffic congestion by diverting transit traffic out of Doha until the completion of the Orbital Express way and Truck Road, which is expected to be complete in 2017," he said.

The Salwa-Lusail TTR consists of a two-lane road in each direction separated by a median. It starts from Lusail Development passing through Al Khor highway via a new prefabricated steel bridge.

The TTR crosses Al Mazrooah Bridge (bridge number 16) and stretches from Al Shamal Road to Dukhan alongside the backside of Umm Salal and Al Rufaa Street.

It then intersects with Dukhan Road via a second prefabricated steel bridge that has been developed to ensure the traffic flow.

The TTR then extends until it intersects with Salwa Road crossing the existing bridge and connecting with the Salwa-Mesaieed (Route 55) that leads to Mesaieed and the South..

Trucks won't be allowed to overtake on the two-lane roads. [The Peninsula]

 

That's a big help to lighten the traffic.

 

These days its everywhere construction going on and we always find big trucks/dumpers moving around, even in narrow lanes, it's unsafe driving beside it, as it happened few days back on doha corniche road, a big container from a truck fall on a car driven by an british expat, he died on the spot. Since then I started keeping a distance from these trucks, specially when riding with family members.

Hope doha roads will be safer by the decision of moving trucks out of city circle into by pass roads.

 

this is a great news and to reduce traffic congestion..

 

Yes, all we expect free traffic at times during Eid holidays to enjoy Eid festivities all around Doha, right now. Coming 26 July when all be back on road hope traffic congestion is low as 30-40% community are holidaying back home, this will go until end of August when they will be arriving back to Qatar and then after School gets open, traffic time ahead.