Dubai: I would like to highlight the careless attitude of some motorists in the Karama area of Dubai. Every evening, motorists seem to be in a hurry to return home and become more careless than usual. When at a traffic signal, motorists are supposed to wait till the junction is clear even if the signal is green. However, motorists in Karama do not wait and enter the junction (as seen in photograph). This is a daily occurrence near the signal shown in the photograph.
It seems that the motorists just don’t care if there are pedestrians waiting to cross the road or not. They will just speed across the junction, when the signal is yellow or sometimes even red, to save time, but by doing this they cause a traffic congestion and inconvenience to both pedestrians and motorists waiting on the other side of the junction.
I hope that the authorities will install cameras at this signal so that whoever breaks the law will be fined or will be reprimanded, because this continues to happen every day. Jaywalkers are fined by the authorities because they cross the road from a spot that they are not allowed to. Then, these motorists should also be strictly penalised for doing something similar.
