Kunjpura market, Gur Mandi to be vehicle-free zones

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, January 4

To regulate vehicular movement in the city, Karnal Smart City Limited (KSCL) has chalked out a plan to declare busiest stretches as no-vehicle zones between 9 am and 9 pm daily.

In the first phase, the Kunjpura road market, Gur Mandi and Karan Gate market will be made vehicle-free zones by the month-end while in the second phase, a part of the railway road and some area of the bus stand road would be taken up.

The authorities have also earmarked four parking lots — Old sabzi mandi, old office of the Karnal Municipal Corporation (KMC), Ramlila Ground and the site of Jernally Kothi.

“The Kunjpura road market, Gur Mandi and Karan Gate market will be declared no-vehicle zones by the end of January. We are developing four major parking slots, which have the capacity to park 1,000 vehicles,” said KSCL CEO and Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav.

The KSCL will lease the parking lots and nominal charges will be fixed on hourly basis. “If all goes as per the plan, then parking contractors will provide the facility of e-rickshaws to commuters,” said the DC.

He added that traffic congestion on these roads was a major problem and traders had also been raising the issue during the district road safety committee meetings.

It has also been decided to impound all those vehicles that are found parked along the main road. The defaulter will be fined.