Destroyed Steps in Jabal Amman
JABAL AMMAN – A new blacktop road has been installed on Mango Street in Jabal Amman, the same street that houses Books@ Cafe and great views of East Amman. While most of the residents are pleased about the new road, some wonder why the new road had to come at the expense of the sidewalks.
One resident, Samia, who lives at the very end of Mango Street, was out cleaning up after the road workers. She was putting back together two stairs that had been crushed and rendered unusable and dangerous. The steps were left in a heap of rocks and debris, for anyone to fall and twist an ankle or worse.
The workers paved the street Wednesday – Friday night, and yet no one from the Municipality of Greater Amman had come by to fix this potential hazard by Saturday. Samia decided to take the matter into her own hands and clean up the mess before someone seriously injured themselves.
Listen to Samia discuss what the problem is.
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Professionally paved street and sidewalk in Jabal Amman
[…] JABAL AMMAN – A new blacktop road has been installed on Mango Street in Jabal Amman, the same street that houses Books@ Cafe and great views of East Amman. While most of the residents are pleased about the new road, some wonder why the new road had to come at the expense of the sidewalks.[Read more] […]
Nadine has an interesting video shot in the first-person, on the sidewalks of amman:
http://ikbis.com/ArabianMonkey/shot/125885
Nadine has an interesting video shot in the first-person, on the sidewalks of amman:
http://ikbis.com/ArabianMonkey/shot/125885
To top that off, they decided to pave THIS street in jabal amman on its busiest day, friday, where people going to Jara are parked all around rainbow st.
To top that off, they decided to pave THIS street in jabal amman on its busiest day, friday, where people going to Jara are parked all around rainbow st.
Are you kidding me, only in Jabal Amman, you mean in all the streets of Jordan. Then you have the Water Municipality that digs the streets and after they are done the electric company comes and detsroys what was left from teh street. Then the cable company arrives with its buldozers and dig the remaining of the streets. The Amman Municipality is to be blamed for all this chaoes, not the us the tax payers
Are you kidding me, only in Jabal Amman, you mean in all the streets of Jordan. Then you have the Water Municipality that digs the streets and after they are done the electric company comes and detsroys what was left from teh street. Then the cable company arrives with its buldozers and dig the remaining of the streets. The Amman Municipality is to be blamed for all this chaoes, not the us the tax payers
[…] the Jordanian citizen journalism web site has posted an article with pictures and an audio interview about a broken side walk in Jabal Amman. This damage was caused by the process of paving which […]
As we all know we don’t have pavements at all and now they stated destroying the few that we have. That is great
As we all know we don’t have pavements at all and now they stated destroying the few that we have. That is great
this isnt nice but i dont like the new street :/
this isnt nice but i dont like the new street :/
I am a 32 years old Jordanian who lives in Dubai, I have been living in Dubai all my life. I am bound to a wheelchair, I used to visit Amman nearly every summer but used to have my worst time ever, just because I am disabled and on a wheelchair I cannot do anything in Amman without having more than 3 or 4 people helping me out, embarrassing.
Yes, here in Dubai I still need help but only from one person who could be my dad or brother. In Amman there are no slopes, each and every building has minimum 4 steps to go up, the lifts are small and the sidewalks as you can see, and don’t tell me this is new news for you I have been seeing the sidewalks look like that since the 1980’s 🙂
I keep asking myself how disabled people in Jordan actually coop with this?! GOD HELP THEM ALL. The last time I went to Amman was 7 years ago, and every time some one from my family goes to Jordan I feel bad because I also want to go and have fun with the family but then I remember the horror times I spent there and just ask God that one of those days I would be able to visit Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon and enjoy my stay.
Long comment, I know, but just had to say this, maybe you can talk about it and interview couple of wheelchair bound people and see what they think of the accessibility in the country.
I am a 32 years old Jordanian who lives in Dubai, I have been living in Dubai all my life. I am bound to a wheelchair, I used to visit Amman nearly every summer but used to have my worst time ever, just because I am disabled and on a wheelchair I cannot do anything in Amman without having more than 3 or 4 people helping me out, embarrassing.
Yes, here in Dubai I still need help but only from one person who could be my dad or brother. In Amman there are no slopes, each and every building has minimum 4 steps to go up, the lifts are small and the sidewalks as you can see, and don’t tell me this is new news for you I have been seeing the sidewalks look like that since the 1980’s 🙂
I keep asking myself how disabled people in Jordan actually coop with this?! GOD HELP THEM ALL. The last time I went to Amman was 7 years ago, and every time some one from my family goes to Jordan I feel bad because I also want to go and have fun with the family but then I remember the horror times I spent there and just ask God that one of those days I would be able to visit Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon and enjoy my stay.
Long comment, I know, but just had to say this, maybe you can talk about it and interview couple of wheelchair bound people and see what they think of the accessibility in the country.
Amman is a nitemare for pedestrians, and for the disabled & elderly it is unimagineable what these groups must experience. There is some hope on the way; the Amman Master Plan has recognized this as a major flaw in the City’s development and GAM is preparing, in partnership with the disabled community, a policy and program to correct this situation. Retrofitting the existing built environment will take years, but implementing policies and programs, including regulations for what is being built only requires Political Will…There will undoubtfully be pushback from the real estate community, but if the policy is applied evenly to all they will come to accept their social responsibilty. By the way, an estimated 10% of the population has a disability. I know of a group that is planning an Annual Report Card that will monitor both government and major real estate developers regarding adherence to accessibility standards – i think this is a brilliant idea. Institutions need to be held accountable!
Amman is a nitemare for pedestrians, and for the disabled & elderly it is unimagineable what these groups must experience. There is some hope on the way; the Amman Master Plan has recognized this as a major flaw in the City’s development and GAM is preparing, in partnership with the disabled community, a policy and program to correct this situation. Retrofitting the existing built environment will take years, but implementing policies and programs, including regulations for what is being built only requires Political Will…There will undoubtfully be pushback from the real estate community, but if the policy is applied evenly to all they will come to accept their social responsibilty. By the way, an estimated 10% of the population has a disability. I know of a group that is planning an Annual Report Card that will monitor both government and major real estate developers regarding adherence to accessibility standards – i think this is a brilliant idea. Institutions need to be held accountable!
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