A terrible Traffic Jam

A week before Eid ul Azha, while I was coming back from the dentist clinic, I, being one of the unfortunates, got stuck in a bad traffic jam. As we crossed Tariq road that further links to Khaled bin waleed road what we saw was cars cars and queue of cars.

There was a haphazard situation. People living in Pakistan can easily picture out the whole scene. Every single person was in a rush. All the signals stopped working and there was not a single traffic officer who could actually help in controlling the traffic flow.

We chose a very bad day for the appointment. The reason of such a bad traffic jam was the restoration of International Cricket in Pakistan. The blocking of stadium road diverted the whole traffic to other main roads and the absence of traffic officers worsened the situation.

We kept switching lanes in hope to get off this situation in the quickest possible way but things didn’t work our way and we had to bear the honking of horns and the racing of engines for almost an hour. Suddenly, we saw uniformed personnel controlling the traffic. He started acting efficiently and cleared the adjacent road.

We started praising the man and hoped that we’ll soon be far away. After some time when the adjacent road was completely cleared and the vehicles weren’t allowed to pass from that road, what we heard were loud sirens from police vans. We had no clue of what was going on.

With a blink of an eye, a black tinted car passed by with the maximum speed surrounded by four speeding police vans. The uniformed man hopped in one of the vans and rushed away, leaving the traffic the way it was. People started shouting. Everyone looked frustrated.

With no sign of hope from the officials, common people parked their motor bikes at corners, and started directing the traffic.

It was an appreciable effort those people made. If it hadn’t been them, then the people who were stuck there would have reached home much later.

It’s saddening that the officials are least bothered of what problems the commoners are facing. All they care about is their own safety. If the common people have to do their jobs too then why are they even assigned to posts like these?