New Lalazar: Residents demand relocating school

Locals say traffic remains clogged for hours on narrow road

RAWALPINDI:

Residents of Rawalpindi’s New Lalazar colony have demanded shifting Fauji Foundation school to inside the Foundation University. Locals say traffic remains clogged for hours in morning and afternoon as dozens of school vans cram on the narrow lane road.

Having been the shortest route between Jhelum and Adiala roads, the New Lalazar Road receives a continuous flow of traffic. It has no parking area, which results in blockade of the road at school opening and closing hours.

Shahzad Azam, a resident, said moving in or out of the colony during rush hours had become a headache. He said the narrow street had not enough space for all the pick and drops vans.

The residents also said that the school was being run in a rented residential unit.

They urged Rawalpindi Cantonment Board to relocate the school to Foundation University and also widen the road.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2015.