Panel formed to address traffic jams in Jordanian major cities

Interior minister Hussein Majali on Sunday decided to form a committee to deal with instances of traffic congestion witnessed in Amman and other major cities in the Kingdom.
The panel is headed by the ministry's traffic safety department chief and comprises representatives from the ministries of municipality affairs, public works and housing and transport as well as from the Greater Amman Municipality, the Public Security Directorate and the Land Transport Regulatory Commission.
The interior ministry’s official spokesman, Ziyad Zu'bi, said the committee had been tasked with putting forward solutions to daily traffic snarl-ups in some major cities. These, he said, are caused by population density and increasing use of cars as well as lack of parking space at public facilities, leading to random parking and traffic congestion.