KARACHI, Oct 1: DIG Traffic Falak Khursheed on Saturday directed all the Zonal SSPs traffic to immediately launch a drive against motorcycles bearing illegal number plates as a step to ensure enforcement of traffic rules.
He ordered to ensure fixation of number plates in accordance with the rules on all motorcycles which would help curb street crimes effectively.
The DIG traffic said that under the Capital City Police strategy devised for the security of citizens, this step would help control street crimes in Ramazan.
According to a traffic police spokesman, legal number plates for motorcycles must measure 6.5 x 6.5 inches, having white background with sky blue characters. The font size and length should be 1.5 and 1.67 inches respectively, with margins from all sides 1.33 inches and space between characters 0.25 inches.
The spokesman advised motorcycle owners to ensure fixing of number plates which meet all the above criteria. Legal action will be initiated against the violators under Rule No.32, Section 112 of Traffic Ordinance 1965, he added.
TINTED GLASSES: Despite clear instructions from the chief secretary to initiate an effective campaign against vehicles with tinted glasses, hooters, coloured headlights and fancy number plates, no concrete measures have been taken so far against vehicles violating traffic rules.
Vehicles with dark glasses are plying freely on all city thoroughfares. Some of these vehicles even bear official number plates.
Official vehicles of influential people are still enjoying dark glasses without any regard to laws and regulations. Frequent use of pressure horns and hooters in all sorts of vehicles including cars, motorbikes plying on city roads are the major sources of noise pollution.
According to a traffic police official, ministers, advisers, bureaucrats and politicians are using such vehicles. We have to think twice before stopping any such vehicle, as it might cost us our job, he said.
A number of four-wheelers plying on city roads are having tinted-glasses while a number of vehicles either carrying ambiguous number plates or carrying ‘Applied for Registration’ paper despite the fact that they are not zero metre vehicles. —APP/PPI
