Pakistan Today

Pedestrians not using overhead bridge

Most of the residents living across the Benazir Bhutto (Murree Road) seem to have no interest in using the overhead bridges built on various points to facilitate them. Despite warnings by the City traffic police the pedestrians seem not to take the extra effort to climb the bridges, and instead, just walk across the road. Pedestrians are generally reluctant to use the nearby overhead bridges like the old guy saying, “I’m in a hurry, I don’t care. I have to reach office.” Most of the city overhead bridges, meant for safe and easy crossing of jam-packed roads and railway tracks, turned into business centers due to the sheer negligence of the authorities concerned causing bothersome to the citizens. Fortune-tellers, palmists, quack dentists and beggars have encroached most of the space on the bridges and turned this facility into irksome for the pedestrians, especially for women. Hawkers and vendors on overhead bridges have grabbed spaces of two to three feet each, selling merchandise ranging from food items, glasses and minute household items to cheap daily use items like watches, radios and toys etc.

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