Traffic officials with delivery boys during the awareness programme.
Doha: The General Directorate of Traffic, represented by the Traffic Awareness Department, recently held a lecture for bikers working in the field of delivery orders.
Lieutenant Meshaal Ali Al Ghadhedh, the Traffic Awareness Officer, delivered the lecture in the presence of about 25 bikers from orders delivery companies.
The General Directorate of Traffic confirmed that the awareness lectures come within the framework of an annual plan presented every month for this category encouraging cyclists to adhere to traffic rules and regulations to protect their lives and the lives of other road users by avoiding wrong traffic behaviours.
The cooperation with companies is ongoing to cover as many delivery boys as possible. The lecture dealt with several axes, the most prominent of which were the causes of accidents, distraction while driving, and the penalty for excessive speed.
The most common violations committed by the riders, given that some of the delivery boys sometimes commit wrong behaviours that may cause inconvenience for road users, such as entering between cars or driving on the roads in groups.
Sudden entry and changing lanes quickly and unpredictably, especially in internal streets, also create problems. Most of the riders working in delivering orders abide by traffic rules, for example, wearing a helmet and following other safety requirements.
The problem with the behaviour of some of them is that they require the intervention of the owners of the companies in which the riders work.
At the end of the lecture, questions were asked by the riders about the most common violations and traffic information in an interactive atmosphere between the officers and participants.
