KARACHI: Setting up of gas stations perturbs people
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 15: Setting up of two CNG stations on either side of a narrow street in Federel B’ Area in front of Aga Khan School has become a source of nuisance to motorists and residents.
Residents of F B Area’s Block 6 complained that although, at present, only one CNG station had become operative, the narrow street where two CNG stations exist often gets choked owing to presence of a number of vehicles all around the station.
They said they were already perturbed when a CNG station was set up there on a residential plot, the emergence of a vulcanising shop and a car washing station adjacent to the street, had created a mess, as a number of vehicles usually remain parked haphazardly all along the street, thereby reducing the width of the narrow street.
During a visit to the site, this correspondent saw that on the one hand motorists are now forced to drive cautiously on the street as vehicles after getting their tanks filled with the CNG speedily mingle with vehicles moving on the street from either side, and, on the other, a number of vehicles usually remain parked along the street and in front of the vulcanising shop and car-washing station.
Area people said that the officials of the city government’s master plan department had violated the rules pertaining to conversion of land-use by granting NOCs for CNG stations on residential plots.
The two CNG stations face each other and are located on either side of a hardly 20-feet wide street.
It was revealed that the Master Plan department officials did not take mandatory NOC from the fire department while granting permission for CNG stations.
