Most of Deputy Commissioners in Jammu province have not identified land in their respective districts and tehsil headquarters, where bus stands can be built to reduce congestion and traffic snarls. The circular of the Commissioner for Transport asking for identification of land for new bus stands and parking places at district headquarters has not yielded satisfactory results. But the issue cannot be left where it stands and a solution has to be found. We have been raising this issue in the columns of this paper arguing that the number of private and public vehicles in the two capital cities is fast increasing but the road widening is going on a snail’s pace. In absence of parking places, people park their vehicles on the roadside thus adding to traffic congestion and the problems connected with it. While land for proposed 17 new bus stands in Kashmir has been identified by the revenue authorities concerned, in Jammu region not a single site has been identified or earmarked for conversion into a bus stand. A proposal of shifting the present bus stand has been on the anvil for many years but owing to vested interests it has got shelved and the traffic congestion has reached saturation point. The Government shall have to constitute a committee to examine and report as early as possible the identification of bus stands at proposed sites in the district and tehsil headquarters.
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