Zero tolerance for violators on Sh-e-Faisal starting today
By Amar Guriro
KARACHI: If you are sick of traffic jams, exhausted of misbehaved drivers and don’t want to see bikers crossing red lights or scurrying about on pavements, Shahrah-e-Faisal could become the road to travel on. The traffic department has announced that it will be made a model road and there will be zero tolerance for law breakers. “There will be zero tolerance starting Thursday on main Shahrah-e-Faisal from the airport to Metropole Hotel. We are declaring Shahrah-e-Faisal the first model road in the city,” DIG Traffic Wajid Ali Durrani told Daily Times. This will be formally announced Thursday at the traffic office near Metropole Hotel, he added. “Shahrah-e-Faisal is the city’s main road and most foreigners coming from the airport travel along this road... In the next phase, other roads will also be declared model roads.” Shahrah-e-Faisal is the most important road in the city and most of the small roads from the city center lead to this road, but, because of the lack of a proper system there is a traffic jam on different parts of this road every day. “We have made the lanes on Shahrah-e-Faisal clear, have closed any unnecessary intersections and 17 traffic sergeants will patrol each side, looking for violators from morning to evening,” Durrani said. “Now you will enjoy using Shahrah-e-Faisal.”