KUWAIT: Interior Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs Maj Gen Abdelfattah Al-Ali has

issued an administrative decision in which he outlined speed limits on Kuwait streets as

follows:
A) Speed limits on expressways and outer roads that link expressways and main
roads with the country's borders are as follows:
* Maximum speed for cars: 120 km/h
* Minimum speed for cars: 80 km/h
* Maximum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 80 km/h
* Minimum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 60 km/h

B) Speed limit on expressways between Sixth Ring Road and Second Ring Road
as follows:
* Maximum speed for cars: 100 km/h
* Minimum speed for cars: 50 km/h
* Maximum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 60 km/h
* Minimum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 45 km/h

C) Speed limit on expressways between Second Ring Road and First Ring Road
are as follows:
* Maximum speed for cars: 80 km/h
* Minimum speed for cars: 40 km/h

D) The speed limit on Fifth Ring Road starting from King Abdulaziz Al-Saud road
in the east to Andalus crossroad with Ardiya in the west as follows:
* Maximum speed for cars: 100 km/h
* Minimum speed for cars: 50 km/h
* Maximum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 60 km/h
* Minimum speed for trucks and heavy equipment: 40 km/h

E) Speed limit on First Ring Road as follows:

* Maximum speed for cars: 100 km/h
* Minimum speed for cars: 50 km/h
* Maximum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 60 km/h
* Minimum speed for tucks and heavy vehicles: 40 km/h

The second article of the decision stipulated that:

A) speed limit on ring roads from the first to the fourth as follows:
* Maximum speed for cars: 80 km/h
* Minimum speed for cars: 45 km/h
* Maximum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 60 km/h
* Minimum speed for trucks and heavy vehicles: 40 km/h

B) Speed limit on main roads in inside areas will be as follows:

* Maximum speed for cars: 60 km/h

C) Speed limit inside residential areas:

* Maximum speed for cars: 45 km/h

Article 3 of the decision stipulated that the maximum speed on Kuwait City roads is 45 km/h
from the east (Engineers Society) until the intersection of west Soor Street (Al-Maqsab
intersection), where the maximum speed limit for cars will be 60 km/h.

The fourth article stipulates that as an exception to the rules in articles 1, 2 and 3, the
traffic department can set the speed limit either to increase or decrease based on

engineering standards, traffic density, type of vehicles, nature of trips on roads and nature
of areas the traffic is going through.