Since people don’t believe in pedestrian bridges, always watch out for “7ajje sameera” crossing the road right after a tunnel (even though there’s a steel fence right there waiting for her, she’ll cross).

don’t accelerate on puddles of water and splash pedestrians. be considerate. SLOW DOWN!

o concerning point number 6, you should avoid driving in amman. full stop.

You deserve to reach your destination first, even if you cause the others grief and actually make the traffic even worse, it’s the wild west out there.

As for #2, and according to the say “Man 3ashar Al Qawm..”, so for them to understand your driving intentions, wo bema enno Mohammad Ghammaz hajar 3la canada men zaman, a5i al mowaten :

“Shabber Tarba7″

use the signal + your hands, they won’t believe you if you want to take the lane to left and u ticked the left signal, use your hand to indicate it, as for taking the lane to the right ( which maybe rarely needed, as the Left Has the Right – u know what i mean-, but just in case, buy a Gashhata, and keep it beside u on the front chair.

even if you want to break, while using the breaks, get your hand out, and try to wave your hand up and down like you are trying to fly with the car, while non Jordanians will rofl, Jordanians will understand there is an urgent matter – i.e accident- on the road.

When there is a traffic jam, consider Taking the Rightest Lane, as the accident occurred on the other lane, and all people are slowing down to take a look, the more the left you are, the more I’ll face people want to get closer to see the accident and figure out who’s mistake was it

hahahaha I do number 10 ALL the time, especially with taxis.

LOL Roba, were you stuck in Jabal Amman like me today at 12pm? I WAS COMPILING THIS LIST!!!!!

1) Drive on top of the white line, so that you really cCAN own the whole road.

2) Since one cannot pull forward to a free space just ten feet further, double park on the right lane on Zahran between 1st and 2nd circles and turn on your hazard lights before parking: that makes it all ok for people behind you. Then see Roba’s #9

3) Avoid rental cars at all costs. Bad drivers driving cars they don’t care about are the worst. Ranks up there with learners, taxis

4) If you are a woman and do have a bigger car, AND THE RIGHT OF WAY, go ahead and play chicken in the roundabout. Mr. Black BMW will have a heart attack, but he will stop.

5) About revenge. If someone is driving dangerously, I practice #1to keep others safe ;). If he really wants to see if his Hummer will drive over the median to overtake me, I let him. We saw one jump the median on Mecca last week.

6) With the jerk inching his way toward your bumper to pull in front of you after he has passed a line of waiting cars, inch right back, roll down the window, and yell with a smile “So, how much did you pay for that drivers license you obviously didn’t earn?” or “didn’t your mother teach you to take turns?”

7) I pray for the people that make me the maddest. Calms me down, benefits them, and helps me remember that God metes justice much more creatively than I can.

(heh-heh. heheheheh!!! Gotta link this)

Funny stuff, but none of that’s going on around here. I’m driving around central Ohio all the time, 99% of the time people drive tip-top. Come to think of it, haven’t heard a car horn in probably a month. Anyway, I consider myself a good driver, but if I spent just a hour in Amman’s traffic, I might just swerve into some Roman pillar just to end the pain. Thee Hisham Assi in the house? If so, what’s up man!

Yes, central Ohio drivers are great. Better than Michigan.
Here’s one: Hit the recirculate button as soon as you see a Pregio in front of you. Gotta be quick on the draw!
Second: When someone goes the wrong way down a narrow, one-way street because making the extra turn to go the right way “ma a3jabo” do NOT get over for him.
Third: Always watch out for someone flinging a parked-car door open into your vehicle as you’re driving it.

yesterday I saw a car accident it was split ed in to two pieces 150 meter between each piece !

So avoid hitting ” 3imdan 2el Kahraba ” fe nos el Jazeerah .

Don’t drive in Jordan! Cabs are cheap and the stories they tell of wooing their women passengers are extremely entertaining….

Avoid Kia sephia cars, always, forever, white ones are extremely against humanity..

Also avoid any green palate car (in general): Taxi, Buses, trucks, Service and Rent cars..

the thing about amman is its nuts but its so congested and monitored that achieving high speeds in the city is pretty hard … by high speeds i mean anything over 100 … here in riyadh everyone is flying on the road … everyone … well except indians and sudanis … but pretty much everyone is else …

7ajjeh sameera has bad knees and bad back and weak legs so to expect her to climb up the stairs of the pedestrian bridge that even young people find tiresome is a bit unfair. have a heart. Pedestrian tunnels would have been much smarter. The first half of the trip is aided by gravity. You can fill the tunnels with small shops and give old people breathing room (no i don’t like to stop and take a break over the bridge while everyone stares at me) before they head up again. in most civilized countries (hate this term) they use tunnels to cross streets. a cheaper alternative is to have street level pedestrian crossings with demand traffic lights. As for those able-bodied adults who simply like to cross the busy streets regardless of the available alternative, i say we should pass the Human Roadkill Law that legalizes running over those idiots since it benefits humanity to cull the population of stupid, reckless people….kidding. Even dangerously stupid people have the right to live as if they were normal people.

There is no such thing as a rule for driving in Amman… Its the only place where you find donkeys drive, and at times a donkey will be ashamed of some of those so called drivers behave… To succeed you need to be organized and from what I see, we haven’t even found the evolution path………