KARACHI, July 1: Traffic jams have become a routine on Mauripur road as the traffic police have failed to streamline the heavy traffic on the main artery.

A visit to the Mauripur road showed that a long queue of trailers carrying 40 and 20 feet containers were moving at snail’s pace, while cars were trapped amid the heavy vehicles.

The traffic police cited the construction of Northern bypass as the cause of traffic jam, as the road had become narrow. However, the traffic police have failed to remove the heavy trucks and trailers, parked along the road, which seem to be the cause of traffic jam. The trucks and trailers remained parked at the both sides of the Mauripur road, off the ICI bridge to Gulbai intersection.

Although the construction of Northern bypass was in progress, the road was wide enough to sustain the heavy traffic, if the vehicles parked on the both sides of the roads were removed, the area people said.

The road, running from ICI bridge to Gulbai intersection, where the heavy traffic moves round the clock, carries ditches and the road needs to be carpeted so that the traffic can move easily.

Due to the rough surface of the road and parking of vehicles at both sides of the artery, it took half an hour to cover the distance which could be covered hardly in ten minutes, said a motorist.