Falak Sher
\nMARDAN
\nPeople, including students, teachers, commuters and visitors are facing difficulties due to major traffic jams in the city while the traffic is only limited to impose fines on the Tazraftars rickshaws and other vehicles.
\nTalking to Lead Pakistan here on Thursday, they said all the roads in the city, including Bank Road, Malakand Road, Charsadda Chowk, Shaheedan Bazaar, Hoti Chowk, Dwasaro Chowk and Baghdada Chowk, Malakand Chowk remained jammed most of the time due to lack of planning and violation of traffic rules.
\nMudasir Khan, a resident of Mardan city, said the traffic cops were largely unable to streamline traffic to reduce hardships of the motorists and commuters. He added that the traffic police have been limited to fines.
\nHe argued that early in the morning at different chowks and especially at Charsadda chowk the traffic police is busy in imposing fines the Tazraftars and other rickshaws and vehicles and later on all the day the Tazraftar and other rickshaws violated the traffic rule and parked their rickshaws on the road. He argued that the traffic police for the sake of their commission imposed fines not to regulate traffic.
\nHe argued that to regulate the traffic the government should abolish commission of traffic police in fines. Saeed Khan, a visitor, alleged that wardens of traffic police had failed to control the flow of traffic.
\nHe alleged that the majority of the traffic wardens talked on mobile phones or engaged in conversation with people instead of performing their duties. The residents pointed out that a number of the clinics and pharmacies were located near the District Headquarters Hospital on the Shamsi Road which remained jam-packed at peak hours.
\nThey said the patients and their attendants faced hardships as the Shamsi Road was often blocked due to wrong parking and encroachments by the shopkeepers. They believed that U-turns at different roads were unnecessary and created problems. Illegal parking places along the roads caused traffic jams in the city. Some influential people with the connivance of TMA staff have established illegal parking lots.
\nThe residents said the condition of the Par Hoti Chowk, Malakand Road, bus station and Charsadda Chowk was no different as the passengers\u2019 vehicles don\u2019t follow any rule and stop anywhere they wish to pick passengers. They added the footpaths near the bus terminal had been encroached and many shopkeepers charge money as rent from the vendors.
\nThe residents, customers and visitors asked the regional police officer and the district police officer to help resolve this issue in the city to reduce the hardships of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Falak Sher MARDAN People, including students, teachers, commuters and visitors are facing difficulties due to major traffic jams in the city while the traffic is only limited to impose fines on the Tazraftars rickshaws and other vehicles. Talking to Lead Pakistan here on Thursday, they said all the roads in the city, including Bank Road, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-443754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n