PESHAWAR: Peshawar traffic police and transport authorities have confiscated 40 more aging transport vehicles from BRT corridor on Friday.
The government has issued directions to Peshawar traffic police, Transport Department, the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) and other concerned agencies for the immediate removal of pollution emitting buses and wagons. The district administration informed that 40 more ‘illegal’ vehicles have been seized from different areas of the city to resolve traffic issues.
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The government has directed the authorities to continue operation to clear the city roads from the vehicles within a week [1 April]. Due to the operation, the owners of old vehicles have parked their vehicles but Commissioner Peshawar division Riaz Khan Mehsud directed to change the strategy and conduct raids on parking stands so that the task could be achieve before 1 April.
Trans-Peshawar officials have informed that total of 409 buses plying on BRT route have been taken into custody and scrapped while the owners of these buses have also been paid compensation. The officials said that 264 old vehicles and wagons still operate on Peshawar’s roads. Due to severe traffic problems on University Road and GT Road, Commissioner Peshawar Division ordered that there should be no old depilated bus on the city roads.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has earlier banned old buses and wagons on the BRT [Bus rapid transit] route and had set a deadline of January 20 but the order could not be implemented. The transport department has issued a notification banning old mazda bus and wagon, saying that is one of the major sources of pollution in the city. The department said that the last date to handover the old vehicles to the government has been extended to January 20. The owners of old buses and wagon would be paid compensation according to the prescribed formula, the notification had said.