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| Traffic snarls, scanty parking lots arrest city life ahead of festive season | | |  early times report
Jammu, Oct 17: Going out for shopping or outing is turning out to be a nightmarish experience for shoppers these days as the existing chaos due to traffic snarls and inadequate parking facility rule the city's roads and main markets ahead of the festival season and the Darbar move.
While the winter capital is already clogged due to digging the usual city life feels a restraint due to rampant encroachments on footpaths and pavements are adding to the chaotic situation as there is little space to either walk or park vehicles.
Narrating his odd experiences one Naresh Malhotra, recalled that it took him over half-an-hour to cover a 200-metre distance on motorcycle from Purani Mandi to Parade because of traffic snarls and congestion caused due to rampant encroachments. He said, "these days Jammuites are thronging the markets to make purchases ahead of festivals like Karva Chauth, Diwali and Bhaiya Dooj and a complete chaos prevails on all city roads with shoppers finding it difficult to even walk."
Another visitor regretted that pavements too illegally occupied by the vendors, while shop-owners had displayed their wares in corridors leading to utter chaos. "There is no check on entry of four-wheelers from no-entry zone that compounded miseries of the people. Had there been police personnel, the situation would have been different," he added.
For Karuna Sharma, a government employee, it was a distressing experience to find parking room for a car in Parade area of which majority was occupied by the mini bus operators who turn deaf ears to horn honking. She lamented the shoppers would definitely have a tough time in days to come when offices would reopen in the winter capital after Darbar Move here in first week of November.
Pertinently shifting of Civil Secretariat and other "Move offices" from Srinagar will put an additional pressure of nearly 25,000 vehicles, including those of ministers and bureaucrats on chaotic traffic. As already been reported time and again that the traffic police has been grappling with the major problem of shortage of manpower and it has been exploring options to streamline movement of vehicles.
As per records there are around 5.5 lakh vehicles in Jammu, nearly half of the total vehicular population of the state. The city roads generally remain coughed up with traffic moving with snail's pace while a traffic cop controls around 1,700 vehicles on Jammu roads and if there is absence of cops on roads or at vital roundabouts the situation turns more problematic and chaotic. |
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