{"id":2725,"date":"2022-02-10T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T06:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:56","slug":"end-of-online-classes-brings-traffic-stress-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/end-of-online-classes-brings-traffic-stress-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"End of online classes brings traffic stress to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Donia Ibrahim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013&nbsp;Students commuting to campuses within University City have witnessed an increase in traffic delay as they return to in-person classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motorists traveling to universities in Al Juraina said that their journey times had nearly doubled since the face-to-face system has returned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afra Al Suwaidi, a student at the American University of Sharjah, said that \u201cThe traffic has affected my trip to the university by making me leave my house at least an hour earlier.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another AUS student, Aya Al Hilali, added that \u201cI noticed that I\u2019m a lot more stressed because of the jam.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Aisha Alshakhli, a physiotherapy student at the University of Sharjah, \u201cThe road congestion is caused by poor driving behaviors.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alshakhli said that drivers would cut the line to avoid further delay, which has resulted in more accidents on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students noted that the authorities attempted to alleviate the traffic jam by supervising traffic flow in all directions leading to University City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Donia Ibrahim UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013&nbsp;Students commuting to campuses within University City have witnessed an increase in traffic delay as they return to in-person classes. Motorists traveling to universities in Al Juraina said that their journey times had nearly doubled since the face-to-face system has returned.&nbsp; Afra Al Suwaidi, a student at the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-2725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}