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KARACHI: The Karachi commissioner on Sunday banned the entry of heavy vehicles on city roads from 6am to 11pm for a period of three months.
A decision to this effect was taken in a meeting chaired by Commissioner Ejaz Khan and attended by traffic police officials as well as transporters and traffic operators.
DIG-Traffic Asif Shaikh informed the meeting that the movement of heavy
traffic and long vehicles on the city roads during the daytime created massive traffic jams and causing fatal accidents. He said alternative routes had been designated to avoid such a chaos on the city roads.
He said that initially the ban would be for three months during which city road situation would be evaluated and reviewed. Later, a more long-term solution could be made, he added.
The DIG traffic said that the first alternative route was from the Superhighway to North Karachi Industrial Area through the Slip Road.
The second route, he added, was from the National Highway and it passed through the Manzar petrol pump, Younus Chowrangi, Dawood Chowrangi, Gowdown Chowrangi, 8000 Road near Jam Sadiq bridge. The third route would start from the Superhighway and pass through the Northern Bypass, Paracha Chowk, Estate Avenue, Siemens Chowrangi, Gulbai, Mauripur, Jinnah Bridge, and KPT.
Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2017
