Fearing for their life, Transporters in #pakistan keep their vehicles off road soon after sun set

ISLAMABAD, Jul 17 (APP): The people of twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, specially the passengers are facing great hardship as the owners of the public transport plying between the two cities were keeping their vehicles off the road soon after the sun set.A large number of the passengers who are working specially in the Federal Capital have complained that public transporters of route-1 and route-3 have made it their habit of keeping their vehicles off the road soon after sun set and only a few vehicles are plying on the routes leaving the passengers at the mercy of taxi cabs. The Islamabad Traffic Police which is considered to be one of the efficient traffic police forces seen to be hapless before these powerful public transporters. Passengers have also complained that public transporters are overstaying their vehicles at various bus stops specially at Faizabad causing inconvenience to the travellers in hot summer days. “When we ask the drivers of the public transports to operate their vehicles and dont overstay, they resort to misbehave the passengers”, Chaudhry Ahmed Waqar a government servant and a frequent user of the public transport told APP. The passengers have appealed the concerned authorities to tame the drivers of the private transport and direct them to operate their vehicles in the evening and action should be taken against the violators.