KARACHI, June 8: Two important roads of the city — Fareed Bukhari Road and Dadabhoy Nauroji Road — linking Sharea Faisal with the Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society and Shikarpur Colony with the Society Office roundabout respectively, are in ruins because of round-the-clock movement of tankers drawing water from the Muslimabad hydrant.
Another two-way road near Civic Centre, which is the only road for the residents of Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Block 14, has been devastated by 24-hour movement of tankers fetching water from the LSR hydrant belonging to the water and sanitation department.
Tankers drawing water from two other hydrants of the Water and Sanitation department of the city government, situated at Sakhi Hassan in North Nazimabad and at the water pump in Federal B Area, are hindering the flow of traffic, besides causing extensive damage to the adjoining service roads and internal streets of the nearby residential areas.
Fareed Bukhari and Dadabhoy Nauroji roads have developed deep potholes and craters. Tankers make the roads slippery with their leaking nozzles that causing damage to the roads.
At a number of places the surfaces of the roads have become so bumpy and uneven that motorists often have accidents trying to avoid them.
About the two hydrants in Sakhi Hassan and Federal B Area, the sources said that although a long time ago the city Nazim directed the Water and Sanitation department to close the hydrants, neither the Water and Sanitation department, which owned these hydrants, nor the rangers, who were operating the hydrants, had so far taken any measures in that regard.
Nazims of these towns have time and again demanded shifting of the hydrants on the ground that they have ruined a number of adjoining streets and are of no benefit to the residents of their towns.
