Kuwait's Municipal Council has approved a significant policy shift to cancel traditional street names and convert them to a numbered system. In an extraordinary session, the council endorsed a committee's decision to replace the names of 591 streets with numbers, while retaining only 66 existing names and changing three others to honor cities and capitals of Arab countries. This move standardizes the addressing system across a large portion of the country's infrastructure.
The change is guided by a new ministerial decision that strictly regulates which individuals can be honored with a street name. Henceforth, naming is reserved almost exclusively for Kuwaiti rulers, kings and heads of sister nations, historical figures, and select members of the ruling family. The policy also allows for naming after countries and cities based on the principle of reciprocity, but the default for all other streets will be a simple number.
This sweeping reform effectively halts the traditional practice of naming roads and squares, pivoting the entire system towards numbering for simplicity and uniformity. The decision aims to create a more logical and navigable urban layout, moving away from a system reliant on a wide array of personal and other names. The approval marks the beginning of a major transition in how addresses are identified throughout Kuwait.
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