KARACHI, Aug 28: Frequent movement of jumbo-sized upcountry bound buses on University Road has become a permanent source of traffic blockade where an unauthorized terminus exists.
Besides, people living in the vicinity often remain perturbed owing to use of pressure horns by drivers of buses and unhygienic conditions prevailing all around the terminus.
As drivers of buses keep on shuttling their vehicles from one place to another, three lanes of the road remain blocked for motorists proceeding towards Jail traffic intersection from Hassan Square.
Such a situation often results in chaotic conditions, particularly during morning peak hours when school-vans and people going to offices remain stuck for around 10 to 15 minutes.
A visit to the locality shows that buses often remain parked on at least one lane of the road as well as on a roadside storm-water drain, leaving hardly two lanes for the flow of traffic.
As most of the bus operators have set up their booking offices in the shops of a nearby multi-storey residential building, they have also put up tables and chairs on footpath, thus compelling the pedestrians and passersby to walk on the road in a zia-zag manner amid moving vehicular traffic.
The nearby storm-water drain where most of the buses remain parked often gets choked, and filthy water coming out from it has not only caused extensive damage to a portion of the road but unhygienic conditions make people sick.
People residing in the vicinity attribute the cause of chocking of the storm-water drain to dumping of oily and greasy material by mechanics who undertake repair of buses on the spot.
They demanded of the city Nazim to direct the officials concerned to expedite the work of the inter-city bus terminals being set up on the three highways so that all the upcountry bound bus terminals presently existing in the city are shifted there.
