Have you ever heard of a complete mobile city? Actually, there is a mobile traffic city in Egypt, roaming the country’s governorates everyday. The main purpose of this mobile city is to teach children traffic instructions.
The mobile city was seen at the 6th Cairo International Innovation Fair 2019, organized by the Scientific Research and Technology Academy.
The city consists of small cars suitable for the age of young children, traffic lights, as well as signs that exist on the roads, where there are real traffic personnel, in addition to many ranks of officers.
“The Ministry of Interior is providing the mobile city with personnel and all supplies needed,” Brigadier Maged Moussa, director of the Traffic Institute at the Egyptian General Directorate of Traffic, told SEE.
He noted that the city aims to define the rules of traffic for students in primary schools within their schools nationwide, rather than small trips that came to the administration for the same purpose,
“Earlier, we used to receive nearly 50 students each trip time, but the mobile city shall be reached to more than 40,000 students,” Moussa stressed.
He manifested that the city’s compositions are safe and all children can deal with it.
Moussa pointed to the mobile traffic city has raised awareness of the Egyptian family.
After seeing the mobile city, children can easily remember what they have been taught throughout a three-day workshop.
Sometimes, the children who attended the workshops begin to teach their parents what they already have learned.
Around 8,500 road accidents took place in Egypt in 2018, down 23.6 percent from 11,098 in 2017, according to data by Egypt's official statistics agency CAPMAS.
The exhibition is held under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.
Contributed by Nawal Sayed
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