The Ministry of Works: All roads within the jurisdiction are passable, except for the Grendel-Sherif Al-Janoub road in Tafileh, closed as a precaution due to fog

Arab Weather - The Director of the Media and Communications Unit, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Eng. Oroub Al-Abadi, said today, Friday, that the central emergency room in the ministry, and emergency rooms in the directorates and offices distributed over the various governorates of the Kingdom, have dealt with 526 communications since the announcement of the maximum emergency plan. On Wednesday, coinciding with the current weather conditions in the Kingdom.

Al-Abadi added, in a press statement, that about 8,000 employees are trained and qualified to deal with all weather conditions, distributed among 98 field teams in various regions of the Kingdom, equipped with the necessary equipment and about 350 vehicles of different types, supported by others rented from the private sector, noting that the leased vehicles were Hire it based on the assessment of directorates and office managers working in the field, as required by the work requirements.

Regarding the state of roads in the Kingdom, she indicated that all roads within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Works are passable, with the exception of the Grendel - Sharif Al-Janoub road in Tafila, which is closed in coordination with the relevant authorities as a precaution. Due to the low range of horizontal visibility as a result of the formation of fog on it, the necessary traffic diversions were made to ensure the sustainability of traffic on the road.

And she confirmed that the cadres immediately, with the start of the Kingdom being affected by the air depression and snowfall on the roads, worked to maintain traffic and remove snow accumulations using the necessary mechanisms, which were installed in the sites most vulnerable to being affected by the air depression at an early date and in a precautionary manner, especially on the roads leading to hospitals within The competencies and vital facilities, and have not been closed over the past period once and for all thanks to the efforts made by the field cadres working in the field.

She pointed out that the field cadres working in the field, since Friday morning, began working to support the partners working in the field to reopen the secondary roads outside the jurisdiction that witness accumulations of snow, according to the government approach based on coordination, cooperation and partnership; To provide services to citizens.

With regard to the most prominent communications that were dealt with coinciding with the announcement of the maximum emergency plan, Al-Abadi stated that the incoming communications centered on a slight rise in the water level on roads in the north and center coinciding with the start of the impact of the depression, and the ministry’s cadres, during the periodic field tours that it conducts, removed the obstacles. In front of a bus that got stuck on the sidewalk - the Negev Triangle road, in addition to liberating a vehicle of foreign tourists that was stuck on the Negev - Al-Rajif road, and many citizens’ vehicles on the external roads, the ministry continued, throughout the night of Wednesday and early Thursday, to work to remove the obstacles, in front of many of the suspended vehicles, In addition to ensuring the access of its drivers and passengers to their places of residence, in coordination with the relevant authorities.

"The field teams dealt with the accumulation of snow on roads that coincided with the heavy snowfall on Wednesday evening, including the airport road, and the Irbid-Amman road, where the mechanisms installed on the roads immediately removed obstacles to maintain traffic on the roads, in addition to the fall of some trees on the sides of the roads." Spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Works.

She noted that the most prominent obstacles faced by the ministry's cadres during the last period were the citizens leaving their homes to go for walks in areas that witness heavy accumulations of snow.

She pointed out that the field cadres will sprinkle salt on the roads that are expected to witness the formation of freezing, according to the information received from the Meteorological Department, in anticipation of slipping on them and in order to preserve public safety and the sustainability of traffic.

Al-Abadi praised the efforts of the field cadres working in the field to remove obstacles and snow accumulations on the roads during the current weather conditions over a 24-hour period, praising the efforts of the partners working in the field for the constant and continuous coordination with the ministry, which culminated in solving and addressing the observations during the last period immediately, and perpetuating the traffic movement on the roads.