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Yesterday was one of the worst days in my office commutation! When it takes daily around 45 minutes to reach my hotel from the office, yesterday it took nearly 2 hours to cover this commute! :-(( The reason being our good old, E11 highway alias Sheikh Zayed road! There was an accident near the Mall of Emirates where a car had turned upside down and Ambulance had rushed to that spot. Though this accident was on the 4th lane of the road, the traffic movement on the first 3 lanes were very slow where people wanted to view the accident! Hmmm...natural tendency of a human being! :-) Once pass this, traffic gradually came to a standstill after some more distance. We were moving at a snail pace! There was no accidents (since there was no visual information on the display board) but still we were moving very slowly! This happened for nearly 1 hour where we covered barely 15 kms!! Its so frustrating to sit in that traffic which is moving so slowly. Wish we could got down and walked, but the...

Every day if you do not hear one Ambulance siren, the ambulance zooming ahead in 100kmph, then thank god! either the 'terrific' traffic is less OR there is no accidents! (touchwood! :-)) It has become almost a daily scene where you notice a speeding ambulance zipping past all cars in the busy roads of Dubai, at amazing speed and loud sirens. The accidents has become so much part and parcel of Dubai traffic that at least one accident happens in the busiest road of Dubai - E11 or popularly known as Sheikh Zayed Road ! I don't understand why accidents should happen even when there is so much regulation of traffic and a superior traffic management in place. One of the reasons that can be attributed to is the usage of Mobile phones while driving. Here, it is so common and I believe there is some law of not using phone while driving, inspite of which people use mobile phone while driving at a speed of 100~120kmph on E11! This leads to so much distraction and chain-effect that ...