Traders’ body demands solution to traffic chaos

Tribune News Services

Ludhiana, January 29

Members of the Traders and Property Owner’s Association of Feroze Gandhi Market have demanded from the Chief Minister and Local Bodies Minister to direct authorities to ensure proper management of parking lots in the area.

Earlier, the MC had cancelled the contract of a private firm for fleecing visitors and violating the rules.

Col Harjap Singh (retd) of the market association said the authorities concerned should pay attention towards traffic chaos at the market roads as the commuters get stuck in traffic jams.

“In the absence of any traffic police official, I went to manage the traffic system at the market on Tuesday. The district administration and traffic police must make joint efforts to resolve the problem of traffic chaos at the market. Moreover, the civic body should not give parking lots to old contractors as they have caused only harassment to the visitors,” said Col Harjap Singh.

The members demanded that the police should be deployed to manage traffic movement at the market.

They also demanded from the civic body to get a multi-level parking lot constructed at the market at the earliest.

“Instead of signing agreement with erring contractors again and again, the MC must make a plan to deploy unemployed youth and ex-servicemen to handle the parking lots,” said another member of the market association.