Traffic islands to go at cost of Valley’s greenery
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KATHMANDU, OCT 20 -
At a time when the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is choking for breath due to the lack of green hubs and open spaces, the decision to demolish existing traffic islands that have somehow added a green face to the city does not bode well, according to experts.
The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) in association with the government bodies including the Department of Roads (DoR), KMC and the Department of Transport Management has started destroying the traffic islands located along the major junctions to ease traffic congestion by widening roads.
Superintendent of Police Jagat Man Shrestha, the spokesperson for MTPD, says, “At the time when the traffic islands were constructed in 2002, there were fewer vehicles operating inside the city. But now these intersections along the road have created obstruction in the smooth traffic movement in the city.”
He argued that widening roads to control the traffic congestion is more important now than preserving traffic islands in some areas where vehicular movement is seriously affected due to narrow roads. The small parks in Tinkune and Sundhara areas were destroyed recently.
Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of Environment Department in the KMC, said the decision to destroy small parks is not proper for the city that lacks green space due to haphazard urbanisation. Across the 50 square km of space that constitutes the metropolitan, there are only four proper parks.
Posted on: 2011-10-20 09:02
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