« Written in 2003 To the youth of Lebanon
Happy New Year 2008 .. »

New Year’s eve & Road Accidents

Posted by N10452

This has been an outgoing problem since ages, and still no one is giving it any attention …

I went to Faraya 3 times in the past 2 weeks, the road is just horrible … lots of works on the sides or even in the middle of the road, lousy roads, bumps, potholes everywhere ( and not just any potholes, big immense ones that will mess up your whole car not just the tyres).

A large percent of the youth spends New Year’s eve at Faraya, renting chalets and spending 2 or 3 nights up there.
A large number of them as well comes back late at night after the party to drive their gfs or simply to get back home.

The rate of accidents on that night in late hours is very high and most of them are deadly ones.

The simplest thing to do is to put signs and bumps to keep the cars from going too fast on such dangerous roads, it costs nothing and will save tons of lifes ..

I am sure this will go as another lost case i post about, but i cant help not seeing how wrong this is and not point it out ..

The simplest things could save people’s lives, and no one bothers considering them ..

I am seriously considering wasting my next new year to set up road signs and slow down signs and awareness campaigns for the New Year’s weekend …


Filed under: Critiques, Lebanon
Posted by N10452 on 12.29.07 @ 11:13 pm |

Related Entries



17 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. Mikel | December 30th, 2007 at 12:03 am

    It’s Lebanon,
    people’s lives have no value, no one cares if you die.

    Good thing to see at least you care.

  • 2. paul | December 30th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    tari2 faraya ra7 bitdall tari2 lalmi3ze,talama l shariket yalle mit3ahdita libnenye.

  • 3. Rodge | December 30th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    God bless you N,

    but as you said, i’m afraid it’s a lost case, but at the same time worth reminding of.

    Happy new year everyone

  • 4. R | December 30th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    I hope less car accidents happen.

    Last year a girl died due to carbon. fa77amo. People should be careful about that too.

  • 5. Irange | December 30th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    Dear N, i read your article early this morning, & at noon i went to Faraya. Unluckily 3 accidents took place on this road. One of them was with my parents.

    Please the road is very dangerous. theis is two big gaps before bou khalil supermarket.

    Take good care and inform all your friends…

    Thank you

  • 6. N.R | December 31st, 2007 at 6:57 am

    Any solutions instead of nagging about it???? We need solutions not repetition …

    To the educated ones in here, ( othello, 10452, ali1559 , rodge, deltaa and others) bring us solutions for once…

  • 7. fad14 | December 31st, 2007 at 7:48 am

    NR: How about finding someone who knows the contractor and find a way to contact him and see what he needs to get it done.
    Maybe we can all chip in a little money and help him move his a$$$ if the muni are not paying him enough.

  • 8. N10452 | December 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    N.R,
    Unfortunatelly i dont have the proper funding to do such a thing or else i wouldnt hesitate one second ..

    But i wont ruin my future to do a mediocre work .. either its done properly or not ..

    Until i cant do it, khalle li byechtro siyyarat jdeede kel jem3a wou villayet yihtamo chouwe bi cha3boun ..

  • 9. Ali1559 | January 1st, 2008 at 3:29 am

    N.R

    Is it up to us ? I wish it was …

    Still , the leb gov should consider the following steps ( you can call it solution if you want) :

    * Reducing the speed limit to 55 mph instead of 65 if im not mistaken..

    * Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for people ages 5-35 in lebanon , so why not doubling the traffic fine for ppl speeding for the hell of it ? Economy is bad and ppl have no money to play around with ..

    * Points added to our license (as lebanese) every time we avoid or disobey a traffic policy. This will make us pay the heavy price and think twice b4 flying on the high way…

    thakn you N.R..

  • 10. Ali1559 | January 1st, 2008 at 3:30 am

    Fad14

    azdak hariri’s contractors?

  • 11. Ahmad.B | January 1st, 2008 at 7:47 am

    Afkarak 7ilwe alush 1559 bass la 7ayat liman tounadi. felij la ta3lij . w ana ma7alak ma ba2 ba3mol post 3la hayda li blog . Fi kam chab 3m yissa2lo 3nak 7abin yi7ko ma3k bil hal mawdou3 . w bi2ouloulak ya ret bitkhafif 2inte2tedak 3l chiaa aw ghayir issmak la george!!!!

  • 12. paul | January 1st, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    ya m3attar ya ali1559,ballash HA yle72ak?

  • 13. Ali1559 | January 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 am

    Ahmad

    Ghayer issme la george ?!!!! Ana bi amerca ma ghayaret 2issme ya ahmad , hala2 badak yene ghayir la george!!! Ba3den chaklon ass7abak al chabeb al INGHLIZE (english) taba3on ta3ben ktir … ana bint2id chiaa? w lezim khafif ?? iza chi ghalat ya ahmad ma fiya chi iza 2ilna 3no ghalat ….. Ba3den min hine hadole al chabeb ? ana habeb chufon 3la kell 7al , ana nezil 3la lebnen 3n 2rib w ma 3inde michikle wejihon bass nchala ykuno adda lal mouwejaha a7ssan ma yrou7o da3ess mitel ma ra7 ghyaron …..

    LEK HABIBI , INTA MANAK AWAL WA7AD BIHADIDNE 3LA L BLOG , W BTA3REF CHUU , EKHIR HAME , ANA AL SOUREH MA KINET 7ASSIBLO 7SSEB LA TIJE T2ILEH CHABEB !!!!!!? Lek 2ilon lal CHABEZZZ ASS7ABAK , bi2lkon ali, allah yssemi7kon..

  • 14. Ali1559 | January 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 am

    Ahmad

    Ghayrak hadadne ktirrrr , 7alifak al ahbech ba3tle 4 chabeb la yrabune , bass rabet rabon ;) …. mich ana li byithadad ya sadiki….

    Sa7eb al 7a2 soltan ya ahmad w bitmana minak tkhaber ass7adab hal chi…

    3njad fa2sstne … :(

  • 15. Ali1559 | January 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 am

    Paul

    la2 3diye bro, mich awal mara wla ekhir akid.

    Hadole mich HA ya paul . No HA have no time to spend on this blog… trust me .

  • 16. Delta | January 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm

    ALi 1559 i have questions if u feel offended do not answer and let me know .

    Q1: i always wondered : if u guys hate america thta much what do u live here in the state man ? honnestly go live in Iran would not be better and feel like u are with your people.

    Q2: in previous comments u proclaim that you are a christian but stilll wanna vote for Obama, hilary clinton or jhon edwar, where none of these candidate is Pro life wish is against your christian beleif?

  • 17. Ali1559 | January 4th, 2008 at 6:09 am

    Delta

    First of all , let me tell you this buddy, an attitude is nothing more than a personal thought process. It may be impossible to stop someone from thinking prejudical thoughts, but all I have to do is to deal with it and sometimes correct it if possible. In my position, I am not going to be offended by your words anymore , but I’ll always keep in mind what kind of people the lebanese forces are. No offense…

    *(answer1) I dont hate america , why should I ? But, I strongly dislike the TERRORIST republican regime (the one destroyed my homeland last summer). Delta, I dont have to go live in iran ( i am not farrisi
    habibi) im lebanese and i belong in lebanon where you also belong. In fact, my ppl are the majority of the lebanese ppl (both chiaa and fpm) when yours are leaving by the dozens every day without even thinking of coming back!!! It is really sad to see this happening, and whose to blame ? GMA, right?

    * Where did I call myself a christian????? I dont remember myself doing that! Still, I am going to answer your question out of respect only, here is my point of view:

    Delta, My next door neighbor is indian, the one 2 houses down the street is italian and the one across the backyard is mexican. This is the american MELTING POT where we all live 2gheter under one nation. Delta, america is not a CHRISTIAN NATION (per the american constitution ) and will never be. America is one nation under god.

    One last question, are you over 40 yrs ?



Leave a Reply


Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed

Search



Who posts here

Sections

Other LF Sites

Site Tools






Recent Comments