Daily Times

sISLAMABAD: Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) Superintendent Chaudhary Khalid Rasheed has said that the Safe City Project had made the city safer than before and is helping to maintain the law and order situation of the city in a much better manner.

The SP said that 1900 safe city cameras were working out of 2200. He said that the Inspector General Islamabad Police, Tariq Masood Yaseen, promised to give 100 traffic wardens to the Islamabad Traffic Police at the soonest.

Khalid Rasheed said that CDA had made the traffic system and road in the city for only 50000 vehicles.

Explaining this he said now more than 400000 vehicles were on the roads of the federal capital. He said the ITP conducted a survey in 2014 which states that 337000 vehicles were in Islamabad.

Rasheed said that earlier the traffic was low on the Express Way from Islamabad to the Airport Chowk but after the development on both sides of the road the traffic rush had increased considerably. However, he said that after the Express Way had been transformed in to a signal free corridor the traffic woes would be gradually resolved.

He added that the construction of under passes and over bridges would also help in solving the traffic problems of the city. To a question he said there was no other route for the VIPs therefore “we should have to stop the other traffic for six to eight minutes”.

He said, in Islamabad, almost daily different organistions and political parties held strikes causing traffic blocks and the citizens faced issues but the people blamed the traffic police for these hurdles.