{"id":86342,"date":"2017-10-30T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kabul-municipality-takes-charge-of-traffic-services\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:01:31","slug":"kabul-municipality-takes-charge-of-traffic-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kabul-municipality-takes-charge-of-traffic-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul Municipality takes charge of traffic services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"409\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/30\/5D605DE2-B50A-40EF-915B-C7FA9B49B87B_w1023_s.jpg\" width=\"637\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">KABUL (SW): The Interior Ministry and Kabul Municipality signed an agreement that allowed the Kabul Municipality to take over the management of the traffic services in Kabul city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">Wais Ahmad Barmak, the Interior Minister, today (Monday) in a meeting in Kabul, said the transfer of Kabul city traffic management services to the municipality is a crucial step in solving the urban traffic problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">According to the Interior Minister, the responsibility of Kabul&rsquo;s traffic management would remain the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior and only the management of its service affairs will be transferred to the Kabul Municipality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"435\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/30\/\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0641\u06cc\u06a9.jpg\" width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">Abdullah Habibzai, head of Kabul Municipality, said the aim of this contract was the coordination between the Kabul Municipality and the Interior Ministry, saying that by implementation of this contract the traffic congestion and other urban issues will be reduced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">The Kabul Municipality officials said that they have prepared a plan to regulate the traffic in Kabul, including the installation of signals, the distribution of electric driving licenses, awareness of traffic rules and laws, driving license issuance through the &ldquo;easy-to-serve&rdquo; process, construction of by-pass bridges, and parking lots, which with its implementation, urban services will get better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\"><span style=\"margin:0px\">&nbsp;<\/span>The plan to transfer the responsibility of management of the traffic services to Kabul Municipality was finalized at the third meeting of the urban development and was officially signed today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0px 0px 13px\">ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interior Ministry and Kabul Municipality signed an agreement that allowed the Kabul Municipality to take over the management of the traffic services in Kabul city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}