Brigadier Zaid Al-Hamzi, official spokesman for the Jeddah Traffic Department, told Arab News that the department's plans to ease traffic congestion during the last ten days of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr holiday is ready.

Al-Hamzi said that 1,000 mobile traffic patrol units, 400 traffic vehicles and 500 officers have been recruited to monitor various checkpoints across the city’s main roads.

Traffic patrol units will be centered in areas that usually witness the most congestion, he noted, such as the northern and southern parts of the Corniche, Tahlia, Andalus, Palestine, Al-Sabaeen and Walae Al-Ahad streets. He added that patrol units would be dispatched to areas with large mosques to avoid bottlenecks during Eid prayers.

The spokesman noted that traffic violations increase during holidays, cautioning motorists about the consequences of reckless driving.