Earlier this month, minister Marwan Charbel imposed a new traffic plan on truck drivers to keep them from driving during rush hours in order to reduce congestion on the main roads.
The drivers eventually didn’t like this plan, so they started complaining about it in the media until they decided to go on a protest today. And being the geniuses they are, they didn’t do that in front of the ministry of interior or any other reasonable place, on the other hand, they simply decided to block the Ouzai highway which is used by thousands everyday to reach Beirut, which made people wait for like an hour or two in their cars this morning! I know because I was one of them.
Police officers were as usual just watching the protestors, and not daring to speak a word with them, while trying to organize the traffic a bit.
Balad mat3oub 3leih!
I was in the same JAM, when i joined it, it had already reached the Khaldeh Overpass, half way through it i hear on VDL that the truckers where blocking the road, i spent 1 hour and 45 min with my family (4 month baby girl and 2 year old son), taking them to school, while my daugher was in urgent need of a diaper change half way through causing her to cry all the way and of course my 2 year old joined in. lovely drive…
I understand that they have rights and they are protesting forginers taking their jobs, but you dont have to piss-off 1000+ commuters who already have issues with wreckless truck drivers and the one that have god complexes when they are behind the steering wheel of a truck.
im sorry but i swore my butt off when i passed them by.