Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Businessmen Group Chairman former KCCI president Siraj Kassam Teli has called for an aggressive public awareness on traffic rules because for mostly traffic jams people themselves were responsible.
“Around 60 per cent of the traffic jams being suffered on the streets of Karachi, particularly after recent rains, are caused by the public themselves because of fearless violation of traffic rules,” he said in a statement here on Friday.
He urged for proper awareness and training about the basic traffic rules. Siraj Teli said that provincial and local governments could only be blamed for the remaining 40 percent which included failure to deal with encroachment, negligence to city’s dilapidated sewerage network, timely unclog rainwater and other nullahs and unavailability of traffic police officers and other municipal staff at important spots to deal with different situations emerging during and after the torrential rains.