Ashura: CTP finalises traffic plan

RAWALPINDI: City Traffic Police (CTP) have finalised all the arrangements to maintain traffic flow on Ashura Day.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Yousaf Ali Shahid said that enhanced number of traffic wardens under the supervision of DSPs and Inspectors of the city traffic police had been deployed on city roads to control the traffic.

Alternate routes would be made to facilitate the motorists in different areas and traffic would be diverted on 48 different routes of the city on Ashura, he added.

The CTO said as part of the security measures, entry of vehicular traffic from Committee Chowk to Iqbal Road would strictly be banned on Muharram 10.

There would be complete ban on parking of any vehicles and handcarts on the route of procession, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2017.