New Traffic Point in Northern Baghdad
Lesson Brief
Al Sumaria
On August 3, Al Sumaria News reported on the construction of a new traffic point in Taji, just north of Baghdad. The goal of the point is two-fold: to facilitate the flow of traffic by eliminating congestion points and to improve security by setting up checkpoints supplied with advanced security equipment and K-9s. This article contains Iraqi colloquialisms.
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- traffic jams (congestion)
- اختناقات مرورية
- providing, supplying
- تزويد
- it will lessen (colloquial)
- رح اتقلل
- to include
- تَضَمَّنَ ، يَتَضَمَّنُ
- this (colloquial for هذه)
- هاي
- comfort, ease, convenience
- راحة
- we noticed (colloquial pronunciation)
- لاحضنا
- (here) checkpoint, traffic control point
- سيطرة
- momentum, impulse
- زخم
- traffic (movement, flow of...)
- حركة سير