Drive Safe: Learner booths to be set up in city

LAHORE: Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Tayyab Hafeez Cheema said on Monday ‘learner booths’ would be set up in several traffic circles to issues driving licences to citizens. The CTO was speaking to under-training civil services officers who had called on him at his office. Cheema said traffic police would soon open driving schools in Cantonment and Defence. He said that during a crackdown last month traffic police had taken action against 8,204 people for driving cars without number plates, 14,987 people for possessing vehicles with unauthorised number plates, 41,255 people for riding motorcycles without helmets and 18,675 people for using cars with tinted glasses. The CTO said cases were registered against four beggars and 178 others for disrupting the flow of traffic. He said traffic police had also distributed 1,350 helmets among citizens and installed 250 signboards across the city to create awareness about traffic rules.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 9^th, 2014.