Comments on: Swimming in the Street

By: Alurdunialhurr

Alurdunialhurr — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:24:04 +0000

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 .

By: Gandhi Taymour

Gandhi Taymour — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:47:50 +0000

Wow I’m so sorry to hear about this, I had no idea it was like this in Jordan.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:53:37 +0000

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.

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.

If that is the case, then we are really in a middle of embezzlement game.

God saves us!

By: Liza R

Liza R — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:50:59 +0000

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.

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!