GUJRANWALA, Nov 28: The road from Gujranwala to Sialkot is in immediate need of dualizing because it is causing a great deal of inconvenience to motorists while the ratio of road accidents has upped alarmingly as well. Representatives of various transport organizations and commuter associations at a meeting held here on Monday called upon the Punjab government to dualize the track between the two industrial cities.

They said that about a dozen people had been killed on this single track due to overspeeding and rush of traffic during the last one month.

They claimed that the volume of traffic on this single track was almost the same as that on between Gujranwala and Lahore. It was the need of the hour to construct a dual carriageway from Gujranwala to Sialkot on priority basis to avoid further loss of life and damage to vehicles.

They said the Punjab government had formed the highway police and established various check posts to control traffic, but road accidents and incidence of dacoities and robberies were on the rise.