Srinagar , Aug 9: In Srinagar city, passenger vehicles are moving at a very slow speed, causing severe mental trauma and anguish to the passengers. The greed of the drivers to collect more and more money takes the journey of minutes to be completed in hours and no driver drives his vehicle until the space doesn’t get overcrowded.From the starting point the vehicle stops at dozens of places on the way and the passengers are disturbed. Passengers who came from Parimpora New Bus Stand said that many times, the passengers have heated arguments with the driver and conductor, but even then the drivers of the vehicles don’t speed up the vehicle.Passengers said that the vehicles are overcrowded to such an extent that there is no space left, whenever a commuter has to get off a vehicle and the traffic department still acted as a mute spectator in this regard.In addition to this New Bus Stand Parimpora to Lalchowk, Jahangir Chowk to Bemina, HMT, Qamarwari, Barzulla-Bagaat, Rawalpora, Hyderpora, Wanabal-Rawalpora, Bagh Mehtab, Chanapora, Natipora, Nowgam, Dargah, Braien, Nishat, Shalimar, Harwan and many other routes are causing difficulties for passengers due to overcrowding and slow movement of public transport.Commuters of these routes said that they have to face mental trauma on the way because the vehicles are overcrowded and stop at dozens of places unnecessarily. An HMT resident said that whenever he is travelling to Lalchowk in a passenger vehicle and added that it gets difficult to reach on time due to slow movement of passengers vehicles.Azhar- a Shopkeeper from Barzulla said he has a shop At Dargah Hazratbal and had to travel by passenger bus every day. “Although it takes half an hour by private car from Lalchowk to my shop, it takes one hour and twenty minutes through public transport” said Azhar, adding that many times his sales are affected due to his late arrival.Another shopkeeper Waqar Ahmed said that he now boards the vehicle half an hour earlier so that he can reach his shop on time.Meanwhile passengers, businessmen and employees have appealed to the traffic authorities to take steps to improve the system, so that they can have a sigh of relief. (CNS)
