A LARGE number of motorcycles and rickshaws these days drive on the wrong side of Karachi streets, putting in danger people’s lives. Almost all of these motorcyclists and rickshaw drivers do not follow traffic rules.

They possess little or no training and civic sense, what to talk of driver’s licence. If a citizen tries to stop them or tells them they are creating chaos, they either ignore him or react rudely. This mayhem caused by these reckless motorcyclists and rickshaw drivers is resulting in deaths, injuries and massive traffic jams on a daily basis.

No one should be allowed to be on roads with a motorcycle or a rickshaw if he is involved in uncivilised behavior. The provincial and federal governments should not only expedite work on the Karachi Circular Railway but also extend it on the pattern of metro system we can see in large cities of other countries.

This should be done on a war footing. People should be given an alternative mode of transportation to lessen the vehicular traffic on roads.

Ali Hassan

Karachi

Published in Dawn, January 23rd, 2017