KOHAT, Dec 1: The Kohat Bazaar union and the tehsil police have constructed four speed-breakers on 100-foot-long Zargran Bazaar Road after the killings of two shopkeepers and the escape of a prisoner from a nearby police checkpoint.

The construction of the speed-breakers on the busy road, which leads to women and children’s hospitals and two girls and boys high schools, in less than a month is causing great hardships to motorists, students and patients.

On three other roads, which lead to a hospital situated on a hilltop, dozens of speed breakers have been constructed by the area people themselves for the safety of their children.  

Traffic jams occur in the front of the schools and the hospital due to the speed-breakers, school vans and dilapidated conditions of the roads.

The administration seems interested in constructing speed-breakers instead of removing encroachments in front of the shops and banning hundreds of handcarts mostly owned by the Afghan children who do not have much traffic sense.

A strip of about seven feet each side of the roads have been encroached upon by fruit and vegetable sellers and pushcarts and handcarts owners in the presence of the municipal committee staff.