KARACHI, Oct 20: The City Government of Karachi has completed planning for eliminating all the 45 pedestrian ‘black spots’ in the city.

In this regard, Karachi DCO Javed Hanif on Saturday held a meeting to review the steps taken in the light of the Supreme Court directive to overcome the traffic pressure in Karachi.

The CDGK’s transport department presented its suggestions for eliminating the pedestrian black spots.

The EDO for transport told the meeting that according to the decision taken at the Sept 27 meeting of the DCO, work on survey of such black spots had been started jointly by the transport department and traffic police.

This survey had been completed in Traffic Zone-IV and the meeting was briefed on traffic problems and proposals for their solution at 15 such locations.

It was decided that implementing the transport department’s proposals would begin on Monday.

The DCO asked the transport department to make coordinated efforts for controlling traffic pressure and traffic accidents through road engineering measures and enforcement of traffic laws.

The need was stressed to do away with the illegal parking of trucks, illegal openings in the median of roads on Mauripur, Hawkesbay and Gulbai roads, ICI Chowrangi, Habib Bank Chowk and Shahrah-i-Orangi in Traffic Zone-IV.—APP