KARACHI, Sept 6: A busy artery of Saddar, starting from Fleet Club to CIA Centre, has been lying in a dilapidated condition for the last one year, causing inconvenience to motorists, besides hindering smooth flow of traffic.

The condition of the road from where hundreds of school vans pass daily has deteriorated to such an extent that vehicles taking this route often get tilted because its bitumen layer has been removed at different places, resulting in surfacing of sharp-edged gravels.

Irony of the fact is that he devastated road is also visited by handicapped people for buying crutches and wheelchairs as a number of shops selling those items exist there.

People residing in the vicinity and nearby shopkeepers complained that although traffic jams of longer duration have become routine owing to its battered condition and overflowing gutters, the concerned cantonment board under whose jurisdiction it falls was taking no measures for the reconstruction of the road despite repeated complaints lodged with the officials.

During a visit to the road one would see that school-vans carrying children of a number of nearby schools remain stuck on the road which often gets blocked as most of the drivers of vehicles coming from opposite direction usually drive in a zig-zag manner to avoid deep craters developed in a large number on the road.

Residents said on the one hand the road has been lying in a poor condition since long and on the other, filthy water from choked gutters usually remains stagnant on the road, polluting the atmosphere, and creating unhygienic conditions.

On Sharah-i-Quaideen, filthy water remains stagnant on a portion of the road near Lines Area as nearby storm-water drain often remains chocked.