By Mudassir Maqbool
Pulwama: Commuters have to face difficulty in movement daily as traffic jam has become a routine and getting late to offices or schools is a new norm here.
A group of Employees told INS that the traffic situation in Pulwama town has hit them badly on routine basis.
“Even though traffic cops are deployed in Rajpora chowk and murran chowk to regulate traffic but authorities have failed to have a strict traffic action plan in town to avoid this menace,” they said.
Administration constructed Circular Road around town to regulate Shopian to Srinagar traffic but even after that there is no respite from the daily mental agony. “The road is occupied by street vendors from old court to new hospital. Even pedestrians don’t have a space to walk,” Aijaz Ahmad, a shopkeeper at the main chowk said.
Chairman civil society J&K Mohd Altaf said that various factors are involved in the daily traffic snarls in Pulwama town including ‘encroachment by shopkeepers putting decorated items in front of roads, fruit vendors’.
“Wrong parking by vehicles on footpaths irks commuters. Its a menace that people park cars on roads creating hurdles for others,” Altaf said adding that car holders should have a ‘basic civic sense’.
Executive Officer Municipality Mushtaq Ahmad said that: “I can’t deny this fact but our men are all day on the job. About wrong parking, i can tell you that e seize vehicles everyday’.
“We have put forward a proposal to built divider’s in murran chowk and I hope after that that problem will be solved,” Mushtaq said.
