Increasing number of vehicles causes traffic problem

Traffic problems in Rawalpindi have multiplied over past few years due to increasing number of vehicles and frequent violation of traffic laws. Leasing companies are lending vehicles to customers in large number least caring for the road infrastructure, aggravating the problem with every passing day.
Roads and intersections fall short to bear the traffic load that results in traffic snarls and unnecessary time waste for the commuters. Traffic rules violation even in presence of the traffic police continues and is a source of nuisance for the saner road users. Sometimes people take pride in violating the rules although the police make every possible effort to streamline the traffic.
But smooth flow still remains a dream as most of people are seen in a hurry to move through an intersection even when the signal is yellow or even red. Sometimes, the police are seen chasing such vehicle to halt them and penalise. Blowing horns where prohibited, frequent lane change and wrong overtaking are usual habits of the teens and drivers of the public vehicles.
Even drivers of official vehicles bearing green number plates are seen taking the traffic rules as granted. Moving dead slow in the extreme right lane is real pride for some people, who neither move briskly nor give way to others.
This trend impels the followers to blow horns, an act disliked worldover. But, they are left with no way out other than to blow the horns or go for wrong overtaking.
It was sometimes observed that when there is long queue of vehicles, some drivers move their vehicles on the wrong side yet the police just seeing and not doing much.
Most of wagon, Suzuki, taxi or bus drivers are quite illiterate. They only know how to drive and how to make their way. They don't know about the traffic rules and obedience to these. "Sometimes our educated class civilians are of no exemption," a local college teacher complained.
People usually park their vehicles whenever they feel it comfortable not caring for others inconvenience. To get rid of these increasing problems, the traffic police should take care of the situation and fulfil the responsibilities towards checking the lawbreakers.
"The implementation of strict traffic rules should be ensured especially on main roads, as Islamabad Traffic Police tries to do," another road user said. The police should deal with them strictly and penalise them," he said. Parking may be allowed on sides of the road if space available otherwise no parking should be permitted in order to ensure smooth flow of traffic.
Encroachers should also be handled strictly and in view of increasing number of vehicles some of the roads should be used for one-way traffic only. With the implementation of such measures, traffic in Rawalpindi city may be streamlined to reduce the problems of general public and providing them relief from unnecessary inconveniences.