January 15, 2006	Sunday	Zilhaj 14, 1426

KARACHI, Jan 14: Residents of Lines Area and parents of students studying at St Patrick’s High School and Islamia Girls College have expressed their reservations regarding proposed construction of a multi-storey car parking plaza in the area.

Deliberating the issue in a joint meeting held on Saturday, the stake-holders observed that existing makeshift terminus of inter-city buses had already emerged as a cause of serious health hazard for the people, owing to noise and atmospheric pollution engendered by these heavy vehicles. They called for putting off the plan for auction of space for a parking plaza.

The participants of the meeting maintained that the multi-storey car parking plaza would not only be a cause of constant nuisance for the inhabitants of the mainly residential Lines Area but would also severely compromise the decorum required to maintain an educational environment in any area with schools and colleges around.

The meeting, presided by former union council nazim Mehfooz-un-Nabi Khan, also took stock of the position that neither the master plan nor the schemes of Lines Area Redevelopment Project ever had any provision for multi-storey car parking.

The city council had unanimously adopted a resolution last year to shift the inter-city bus terminus from Lines Area. —APP