TWO new one-way roads have been constructed to link Airport Road with Fort Road in Rawalpindi Cantonment to facilitate vehicular traffic by bypassing Kutchery Chowk.

However, the road engineer could not visualise the inconvenience it would be causing local residents and other road users by rendering both Jail Road and Fort Road as one-way.

Consequently, residents of National Park Road, including Gulistan Colony, and Golf Road have to travel an extra 1½ km to reach Airport Road via the Fort Road roundabout.

Similarly, most residents of Jhelum Road, Port Road and Jail Road have no choice but to pass through Kutchery Chowk traffic jams for reaching Fort Road, Airport Road, Adiala Road and beyond. Furthermore, the one-way Fort Road will worsen traffic jams at Kutchery Chowk as an army public school is being constructed there.

Besides, another new road between PSO service station and COD's security wall, linking Jhelum Road with Fort Road, may be made two-way, and a traffic light Chowk may be created on Jhelum Road on the pattern of the one at Peshawar Road, opposite the Race Course Ground.

This modification will reduce distance by about one kilometre for traffic from Fort Road to the Golf Club and beyond, replacing the dangerous U-turns on Jhelum Road with safer light-controlled U-turns and prove beneficial to most traffic from all directions.

It is worth mentioning here that this road was successfully used as two-way for several months before it was made one-way at the beginning of this month.

ENGR. M. AKRAM NIAZI
Rawalpindi