Dubai Municipality has decided on Sunday to ban the sale of newspapers and magazines and other commodities by newsboys and peddlers at traffic signals, said a press release.
Director-General of Dubai Municipality Qassim Sultan was quoted by UAE’s news agency (WAM) as saying that the temporary decision will take effect from October 29, noting that the municipality gave a grace period to those sellers before the decision gets activated.
Traffic officials said that the new decision comes to protect people from accidents that would be caused from those peddlers and newsboys.
Citing official figures of last year, Dubai witnessed a lot of traffic accident killed 148 people and injured 1,481
Reports quoted officials as saying there were some accidents in recent years in which newsboys were either the victims or the causes of accidents, – Albawaba.com
