Tag: Traffic

More than 350 wardens are expected to be promoted soon as the Punjab Government has finally confirmed the traffic wardens for the rank of...

Students of Civil Lines College and traffic wardens scuffled near Kachehri Chowk on Friday. Two traffic wardens and some students were injured. The scuffle...

Three city traffic police wardens foiled an attempt of abduction of two children by two unidentified men at Bhatti Chowk, Ravi Road, on Wednesday....

Thousands of Italian public sector and transport workers took to the streets Friday in a strike which snarled air, rail and roads as Italy’s...

Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Lahore Syed Ahmad Mobin on Wednesday made it clear that negligence on the part of traffic wardens would not be...

Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Lahore Syed Ahmad Mobin on Wednesday made it clear that negligence on the part of traffic wardens would not be...

LAHORE - Drive-throughs of various restaurants across Lahore have been established without abiding by appropriate drive through rules or regulations, which is becoming a nuisance for commuters, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Long car queues are seen in extensive drive-throughs of restaurants blocking the traffic flow completely. As fast food is gaining more and more popularity, commuters prefer using Drive-throughs instead of spending time on dining inside. Drive-throughs allow

GUJRANWALA - The Gujranwala district government has started adorning the city with traffic signals. The city has a population of over two million while tens of thousands of vehicles are running on its roads round the clock, but it was deprived of traffic signal system as no administration bothered to solve this problem in the past. At least five points have initially been selected for the installation of the traffic signals - Commissioner Office Chowk, Shamsi Chowk, Khyber Cut,

LAHORE - The Kalma Chowk flyover is all set to become Punjab's first ever 'split flyover' (two separated 3-lane bridges) along Ferozepur Road with six-lane underpasses along the Barkat Market and the Liberty main boulevards. The project is scheduled for completion by August 14. The flyover project suffered a provincial stay order on March 28 when the Lahore High Court (LHC) restrained the government from executing the project after a petition was filed, objecting to the flyover's

LAHORE - Cathay Pacific Airways, today, released combined Cathay Pacific and Dragonair traffic figures for March 2011 that showed a slight annual drop in the number of passengers, while there was an increase in the amount of cargo and mail. Cathay Pacific and Dragonair carried a total of 2,159,885 passengers last month - down 2.8 percent in March 2010 - while the passenger load factor was down 8.8 percentage points to 76.9 percent. Capacity for the month, measured in available seat

LAHORE - Following the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister, four brand new Corolla cars equipped with modern gadgets were handed over to the City Traffic Police on Monday for patrolling on Ring Road. MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif handed over the car keys to Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) SSP Ahmad Mobin in a ceremony and said that new patrolling cars would further improve City Traffic Police's performance.
He added that new patrolling cars would help in implementing traffic rules and

LAHORE - Traffic Headquarters SP Suhail Ahmad Chaudhry paid a surprise visit to the Ring Road on Thursday to check the performance of wardens and review the steps taken by the City Traffic Police for reducing accidents and maintaining the flow of traffic. The SP directed Traffic DSP Saddar Malik Ikram to implement speed limit on Ring Road and ordered to take action against the violators of speed limit without any discrimination. The SP also asked the traffic wardens to ensure plying

LAHORE - Defence Housing Society residents are groaning and moaning about the wisdom of erecting traffic signals at Faisal Chowk, X Block, which is serving as a deathtrap for drivers, Pakistan Today has learnt. A drunk driver ran over two men at Faisal Chowk, more commonly known as Ghora Chow, a few days ago. Both died on their way to hospital. This junction falls in Khayabaan-e-Iqbal, one of the main gateways to DHA. This junction used to be a roundabout until the authorities decided

LAHORE - A full dress traffic diversion rehearsal was conducted on Ferozepur Road on Monday to plan the traffic routes during the construction of Kalma Chowk flyover. The Ferozepur Road patch towards Kalma Chowk was blocked for rehearsals to plan traffic diversion during the Kamla Chowk flyover construction. Lahore Commissioner Nadeem Hasan Asif, Project Director Sabir Khan Durrani, CMW Chief Engineer Munawwar Shabir, Chief Traffic Officer Ahmad Mobin, SP Head Quarter Traffic Sohail

BENGHAZI - Libya on Thursday warned it could target all Mediterranean air and sea traffic in the case of foreign military intervention, as world powers edged towards tough measures aimed at shutting down Moamer Gaddafi's military machine.
"Any military operation against Libya will expose all air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean to danger," the official Jana news agency quoted Libya's defence ministry spokesman as saying. "And any civilian or military moving traffic will

LAHORE - The city's traffic was backed up for miles as members of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) blocked almost all major roads on Thursday. Huge traffic jams were seen on The Mall, Canal Bank Road, Ferozepur Road and Jail Road. Students from Allama Iqbal Medical College came out of the back gate of the college along the Canal Bank Road and sat on the road blocking it completely. The traffic coming from the city side on the Canal Bank Road was diverted from the new campus

LAHORE - A traffic mess was seen outside all major Matriculation examinations centres on Monday, as candidates were seen gathering outside the centres before and after the examinations. Both students and commuters witnessed long queues of vehicles, as candidates reached the centres to give the English paper. Parents, who came to pick and drop their children, expressed concerns over the traffic mess. "Everything is so badly managed by the Lahore Board, how could one expect that they