KARACHI, May 6: The Transport and Communication Department (TCD) of the City Government has conducted a survey of speed-beakers of 32 streets and roads of Karachi and declared 169 dangerous for commuters and traffic and has proposed their immediate removal.

Sources in the TCD said on Monday that the survey was conducted on the advice of City Nazim Naimatullah Khan as many accidents had been reported on these streets due to unnecessary speed-breakers.

The sources said that TCD officials identified overall 283 speed-breakers on 32 streets of Karachi in which 169 speed-breakers were found sub-standard, creating hurdles in the smooth flow of traffic and causing difficulties to motorcyclists and commuters. 114 speed-breakers on these streets were found proper.

The sources mentioned that they sent a report to the City Nazim in this regard with the proposal that 169 speed-breakers be removed at once, as these speed-breakers were illegal. The streets where the survey had been completed were Korangi Road, Habib Rehmatullah Road, Mauripur Road, North Karachi, Rashid Minhas Road, Manghopir Road, etc.

The survey report said 16 speed-breakers were found on Manghopir Road, 16 on Rashid Minhas Road and 10 each on G. Allana Road and Chakiwara Road.

No speed-breaker were found on Sharea Faisal and University Road.

The TCD has also appealed to Karachiites not to build speed-breakers in the streets as it proved dangerous for commuters. Women, children and elderly people riding on motorcycles and scooters were injured after falling on roads during crossing such speed-breakers.

Backache is a common problem among commuters, especially motorcyclists using roads with sub-standard speed-breakers.

Accidents have claimed 1,000 live at an average every year in Karachi due to the mismanagement on part of the Provincial and City Transport departments.

The more worrying aspect of these accidents is that about 30 per cent of the victims are schoolchildren.—PPI