KOHAT: The streetlight system in the city and its outskirts on the bypasses and main highways is in bad shape, causing problems for the motorist and pedestrians.

Almost all the important roads and bypasses plunge into darkness with the fall of evening due to absence of lighting system.

Only the lights on Hangu road from Peshawar Chowk to Hangu Chowk have been connected to solar system.

Last year, KDA project director had told this correspondent that solar lights would be installed from Gate No. 2 to Circuit House in a few months, but that had not been done. Also, several sectors of the township are also without street lights.

The tehsil municipal administration has also been claiming for last two years that the whole city would be put on solar system, but the plan had been delayed for unknown reasons. An official said that the TMA would need funds from the provincial government to instal solar lights.

The road leading to the Kohat teaching hospital from Gate No. 3 of KDA is without lights and during night people face a lot of problems in locating the hospital.

The Rawalpindi and Peshawar roads inside the city limits are also without proper lighting system. The street from the women and children hospital to the main bazaar, the springs lane, chicken market and old jail road also needed lights.

Also, the gap between lights in some areas near Tehsil Gate where they have been installed is very wide. Not a single light is available on the 11km hilly track or old Peshawar road used by truckers.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2016