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Two-way streets: DHA roads case to be decided on merit

In December 2011, DHA had converted two roads - Khayaban-e-Mujahid and Khayaban-e-Shamsheer - to one-way carriage.

Our Correspondent May 17, 2013 Less than a minute read

KARACHI: The Supreme Court announced on Thursday to hear and decide the case regarding conversion of two DHA roads into one-way carriage after the Defense Housing Authority, its residents and the public transporters failed to reach a settlement.

The lawyers representing the housing authority, the residents, the transporters and others concerned have been directed to argue the case one by one during the next session of the SC at its Karachi registry.

In December 2011, DHA had converted two roads - Khayaban-e-Mujahid and Khayaban-e-Shamsheer - to one-way carriage to “ease traffic woes” and reduce environmental and noise pollution in the upscale neighbourhood.

But some of the residents were not pleased with the move and at least a hundred of them took the matter to the Sindh High Court in April 2012, arguing that the authority had gone through with the conversion without making changes to the master plan according to which the two thoroughfares are supposed to be two-way streets.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 17^th, 2013.