Crown Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior, has set up a ministerial committee to study comments from the public on the Saher traffic system. This is part of a plan to improve the system. A team from the Ministry of Interior will conduct the study, said Brig. Abdul Rahman Al-Miqbil, Director of Riyadh Traffic Administration and the Saher Project. He said the study would focus on all remarks observed by the ministry's field team from various online and other media forums. “Once the study has been concluded, the remarks and recommendations will be sent to the Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs.” The study is expected to be completed soon, he said. The aim is to improve the performance of Saher, Al-Miqbil added. A total of 8,500 speed limit signs have been placed in Riyadh, Dammam, Al-Khobar, Jeddah, Makkah, Madina, Tabuk and other cities, said Al-Miqbil, adding that speed limits on some roads were also increased. Al-Miqbil indicated that the ministries of finance and interior are working to ensure Saher operates in other governorates. This follows Saher's success at reducing car accident deaths by 30 percent and road accidents by 20 percent in 2010, compared with the previous year's statistics. “The second phase of the Saher system in the Western Region will start soon and will include imposing fines for running a red light, failing to stop at pedestrian crossings and making a right turn without stopping their vehicles.” The Traffic Administration has caught many drivers who changed or hid their license plates from the Saher cameras, Al-Miqbil said. Most drivers who filed complaints at the administration, claiming that they did not deserve a speeding ticket, were found to have used the illegal method of changing a number on their license plates to make them look similar to other cars, he explained. All offenders were referred to the concerned authorities for further investigation, the official added. __
