Swimming in the Street
Finally, The Greater Amman Municipality has decided to do something about the flooding in Amman’s streets after any amount of rain no matter how insignificant.
I had posted about this last year and I was thinking of posting about it again recently, because the situation in Amman in the winter is despicable. The streets are always flooded, the drainage holes are spitting water instead of taking it in, and driving is really dangerous especially because you can’t see the many bumps and holes in the streets under the water.
تخصيص 6ر9 مليون دينار لمشاريع تصريف مياه الأمطار فـي العاصمة
خصصت أمانة عمان الكبرى ضمن موازنتها للعام الحالي 9 مليون و600 ألف دينار لغايات إنشاء خطوط تصريف مياه الأمطار والعبارات الصندوقية في العاصمة.
This is taken from last year’s Waterland Amman: City-Sized Pool post. I feel exactly the same way still:
Every winter the same problem arises — it gets talked about on morning radio shows, evening news, and 60 minutes, those in positions of responsibility are brought to comment and they say next to nothing in citizen-O-meter, and then after the usual citizen rants nothing is done to remedy the situation on the ground. Nobody is charged with anything (ruining people’s cars, for instance) and nobody cares.
How very, utterly, desperately pathetic this situation is! I refuse to get my pants soaking wet up to my knees when I decide to cross the street, I refuse to get water up to my brain when I dive in a street pool, and I refuse to cramp someone’s style by spraying them with dirty wheel water when I pass them by. Moreover, I refuse to sheep-up about this.
Amman Municipality and everyone working in it — FIX OUR STREETS or by the devil, this time, someone will get hurt.
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February 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am
It’s the same thing here. Every year, the same neighborhoods and apartments get flooded when it rains, and every year, the municipality makes a big show of helping the victims. Instead of coming up with permanent solutions, though, they just keep putting on bandaid after bandaid, and then everyone looks up in surprise the next time these same people are flooded out of their homes.<br /><br />Don’t even get me started on the drainage (or lack thereof) in the area where I work. Yesterday, I actually had to backtrack in order to find a spot where I could cross the street and continue my walk, because the waters on that side of the street were too high to pass. Ridiculous!<br />
February 14th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I have a friend who has got his car’s two left wheels broken because it fell down in a hidden hole by heavy rain two weeks ago; I bet if he was in another country he would get a compensation for that! But hidden hole is nothing to mention regarding the tumble and the fissions in the street itself from time to time and –of course- after any heavy rain.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">I heard – and am not sure but it’s quite comprehensible – that the percentage of asphalt used in most of Amman streets is above the permitted one which cause a damage for the street sooner or later so the company itself can re-undertake the paving and gain more and more money.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">If that is the case, then we are really in a middle of embezzlement game.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">God saves us!</p>
February 15th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Wow I’m so sorry to hear about this, I had no idea it was like this in Jordan.</p>
February 15th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Sorry for being off topic,,Tololy,please go to Nassem’s Tarawneha and see for your self ,what Graig has wrote,it’s very interesting to say the least . </p>