Rickshaw drivers protest ban

Rickshaw drivers protest ban

Three-seater rickshaw drivers staged a sit-in protest at Fawara Chowk near the Governor House, on Saturday, disrupting traffic for over an hour. The protest was staged against a recent ban imposed on tri-wheelers operating on major arteries, including II Chundrigar Road and Sharae Faisal. The ban, slapped on April 15 by Commissioner Syed Hassan Naqvi on a request from DIG Traffic Peer Muhammad Shah, has triggered widespread discontent among rick…

Rickshaw owners protest ban on three-wheelers on Karachi’s 11 major roads

KARACHI: The city administration has faced strong criticism over a complete ban on operation of rickshaws on the city’s two major thoroughfares and partial ban on nine other roads amid severe shortage of public transportation facilities in the metropolis. The Karachi commissioner has imposed a complete ban on operation of all types of rickshaws on I.I. Chundrigar Road and Sharea Faisal for a period of two months. He also imposed similar restrict…