Rising traffic congestion heads to no dead end in Jammu & Kashmir and more so around schools and hospitals in the twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu amid an unprecedented nonstop rise in the no of new vehicles hitting the roads day after day and encroachment of roads by vendors’ and other business outlets in main commercial hubs. In Srinagar city the traffic congestion is rampant around top referral hospitals like SKIMS Soura, SKIMS Medical College hospital Bemina G B Pant Children’s hospital Sonwar and Lal Ded Maternity Hospital Srinagar. Similarly traffic congestion is very intense around schools like Higher Secondary School Kothibagh Srinagar and High Secondary School Amira Kadal Srinagar. Interestingly most of these top referral hospital and schools are bordering the roads leading to commercial hubs of old parts of Srinagar city and also highly commercialized uptown areas of the summer capital. Had the places outside the premiseses of the top referral hospitals and top schools in both the twin capital cities and major towns of both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division been declared no parking zones for both public and private vehicles the traffic congestion at these places won’t have been as intense at these places as it is now. While the new government buildings for the offices of the government departments should have been built away from the main highways and arterial roads in isolated areas in both twin capital cities and major towns of both Kashmir valley and as wells as Jammu division for the purposes of reducing the intensity of traffic congestion on such roads, most of the government buildings built for the provincial, divisional and district offices of several government department in recent years in twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu and major towns of both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division are bordering the highways and main arterial roads.
While most of the private schools and private hospitals in the twin capital cities and major towns don’t have even parking facilities the government does not seal them the way it sealed some of the shopping malls for insufficient spaces for parking of the vehicles of the customers during last three years. As such question can be asked that if shopping malls have been shut for insufficient parking spaces why not private schools and private hospitals including private nursing homes?
For the purposes of hassle free traffic movement on highways and main arterial roads in twin capital cities and major towns of both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division the only viable option before the government could be shifting of bus stops from the vicinity of schools and hospitals to other convenient places in twin capital cities and major towns of both Kashmir valley and as wells as Jammu division. While most of the private schools and private hospitals in the twin capital cities and major towns don’t have even parking facilities the government does not seal them the way it sealed some of the shopping malls for insufficient spaces for parking of the vehicles of the customers during last three years. As such question can be asked that if shopping malls have been shut for insufficient parking spaces why not private schools and private hospitals including private nursing homes?
