Staff Reporter
Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said that the traffic jams and poor traffic flow on important roads in the city during rush hours is the manifestation of poor traffic planning and management, therefore a new plan to manage traffic in Saddar, Metropole, Clifton and I.I.Chundrigar Road is need of the hour. He was presiding over a meeting regarding Traffic Management in the city here on Wednesday at the CM House. The meeting was attended by Minister Local Government Nasir Shah, CM Advisor on Law Murtaza Wahab, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahlwani, Adl IG Karachi Ghulam Nabi Memon, DIG Traffic Javed Maher, PD KarachiPackage Khalid Masroor and Babr Sani. The Commissioner Karachi gave presentation to the chief minister in which different options of one-way, removal of signals and installation of new signals were suggested. The chief minister said that only declaring the Club Road as one-way was not enough and solution of the problem.He said that we will have to adopt holistic approach by removing traffic congestion and jams from the entire areas right from Chundgrigar Road to Shaheen Complex, Shaheen Complex to Fuwara Chowk, Fuwara Chowk to Metropole corner towards Shahrah-e-Faisal and towards Clifton and at Avari Towers. Murad Ali Shah said that there are different options of one way of different roads. He suggested that the choking points at Metropole, Avari, I.I Chundrigar Road have to be removed with best traffic engineering. The construction of flyover and under passes were not the appropriate solutions, he said.
