Nadeem Al-Terzi, general manager of the Traffic Administration, stated that 678 plan accidents occurred in 2007 and during the elementary half of 2008, most involving motorcycles.

Motorcycles were involved in 403 accidents during 2007 and 275 during the first half of 2008 and, as is regular knowledge, motorcycling accidents often aftermath in casualties through they are uncovered unprotected," Al-Terzi noted. One such copy is 56-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Zubair, who lost his 21-year-old sonny in a motorcycle accident. My son had sold all of his wife"s jewellery to purchase a motorcycle as their source of livelihood, but he lost his life in an accident a month later," his father said sadly.

Um Abdullah Al-Sufyani, 35, recounts that her husband"s leg was broken in a means accident while he was driving a motorcycle, forcing him to stay home for six months, during which time they borrowed and than YR 300,000 for both his treatment and their diurnal living expenses.

According to the Traffic Administration, motorcycles aren"t even allowed to be rented. Two caducity ago, the Cash Secretariat of Sana"a prevented motorcyclists from working within the megalopolis and compensated their owners. The Traffic Administration then stopped chasing motorcyclists, instead sympathizing with them because they compass no other job opportunities, until another solution is determined.

Al-Terzi explains, "During the gone few years, we"ve prevented motorcycles from working in Sana"a due to the damages they cause to both humanity and the environment. We find that they contribute to polluting the environment, they cause system accidents mostly resulting in casualties, they construct forte clamor and they undermine traffic rules by their constant violations." In 2000, the Yemeni control issued a decree preventing the importation of motorcycles; however, it was unable to closing such smuggling across its borders.

For this reason, the Traffic Authority doesn"t require motorcyclists to adhere to traffic rules, under the pretext that motorcycles aren"t allowed to still enter Yemen, so there should be no traffic rules regulating them. Because most motorcyclist behaviors - such as not wearing a helmet, removing the muffler, installing radios or even renting motorcycles - are illegal, we"ll try to catch a way to solve this problem," Al-Terzi noted.

In appendix to causing road accidents and casualties, installing radios and removing motorcycle mufflers causes vast disturbances to others. Nearly all cyclists install radios on their motorcycles and then play them at maximum volume - both day and night - with absolutely no regard for the elderly, the sick or students.

An extremely loud noise results from removing a motorcycle"s muffler, thereby creating a huge disturbance for pedestrians walking on the streets. Traffic officer Ahmed Al-Hashedi admits, "We really don"t know how to deal with motorcyclists.

Provided we prevent them from working in the city, they complain that we decrease off their only source of livelihood; but if we let them work, the Traffic Management won"t enforce the traffic rules for them, nor achieve motorcyclists respect other people. They use loud radios and remove their motorcycle"s mufflers, which disturbs persons of all ages - without exception."

Sana"a University undergraduate Abdulatif Al-Jabri says he and his friends suffer a lot from motorcyclists driving encompassing at midnight, "About a dozen motorcycles cluster sorrounding our house at midnight and then drive environing the sphere many times.

We"re students, so we need to go to sleep early in order to wake up early, but these guys disturb us a lot," Al-Jabri complains. The main reasons many Yemenis drudge via motorcycle are bareness and unemployment.

Massive population explosion and unemployment enjoy increased Yemen"s poverty rate, thereby forcing multifold to endeavor by motorcycle, although they cognize that they risk their lives. For example, hundreds of Yemeni academy and university students include left faculty to grindstone by motorcycle in circuit to bestow for their families" needs.

Because most such dropouts don"t certitude the Yemeni polity to add afafir opportunities for them once they graduate, couple with the fact that their families are unable to dispense for their recite needs, they prefer to drop absent and earn a living via motorcycle.

You contemplate thousands of university graduates who are jobless, although Head of the state Ali Abdullah Saleh promised during his election crusade that the government would enrol all university graduates," motorcyclist Ahmed Hamza, 22, noted. Despite the altitudinous incidence of accidents and disturbances to other members of the public, poverty and unemployment vigour jillion Yemenis to earn their living by motorcycle, while the Traffic Governance is unable to open such cyclists" traffic movements.

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