KARACHI, Nov 20: Thousands of people working in different offices in the Finance and Trade Centre, Sharea Faisal, have urged the Sindh governor and city nazim to get a pedestrian bridge constructed immediately near the FTC as speeding vehicles have already claimed lives of eight pedestrians on this section of the road.

A representative delegation of the works said that following completion of the FTC Flyover and doing away with the signal system at the Sharea Faisal-Capt Fareed Bukhari Shaheed Road intersection, all modes of vehicles passed through the FTC section so speedily that pedestrians, especially those working in the FTC and the adjacent buildings, could not cross the road without risking an accident. They said that about eight of their colleagues had already fallen victim to the speeding vehicles.

Protests against the non-existence of the pedestrian bridge have been taking place almost every day as a number of workers from the offices in FTC its adjacent buildings stage demonstrations and raise slogans.

While visiting the FTC Flyover site, one would see that the workers are forced to run in order to cross Sharea Faisal as the vehicles approaching the FTC Flyover from either side speedily pass through the road while both the traffic intersections in front of the FTC had been made signal-free following construction of the flyover.

One would also see that women, especially those working in different offices of the FTC, often get frightened while crossing the road as drivers of vehicles, particularly the jumbo-sized UTC buses, coaches and Metro buses, never bother to stop their vehicles even after seeing them.