Suspended wire car: Gul Dhok Damtor residents indignant during use inconvenience
A handle automobile rolls thousands of feet above a Daur River. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ABBOTTABAD: Residents of 8 opposite areas situated opposite River Daur are indignant and endangered over a cessation of a handle automobile use between Gul Dhok Damtor and Murree Road over a river.
They have demanded that a use be resumed.
The handle automobile had been swinging indefinitely by a internal administration final week after it pennyless down mid while transporting around a dozen kids who were streamer to school.
Speaking to The Express Tribune on Wednesday, Nadeem Khan, a proprietor of encampment Chahnr, explained that over 40,000 people of Gal Dhok, Chahanr, Seriyan, Bagarmar, Jaswal, Bokray and Sidrah , had no approach means of reaching Murree Road other than a dangerous channel of River Daur.
However, in a early seventies, a supervision built a temporary overpass that authorised a residents, generally propagandize children, to cranky a river.
However, after according to another villager, a overpass eventually pennyless divided during several places and was probably unusable. Despite several requests to inaugurated MPAs from a constituency, a derelict overpass was not repaired. As a result, several commuters postulated injuries and even fell into a stream while regulating it.
Wazir Muhammad, another villager from Gal Dhok lamented that given there was no petrify bridge, residents of surrounding areas had no other choice other than to ride by jeeps that ferries them opposite a stream and opposite unpaved roads adult a towering to a villages.
This mode of transport is utterly perilous, generally during a time when a stream is in high flood.
Recognising a need for a ride service, a private financier had dual years ago set adult a handle automobile use opposite a river.
“There are during slightest 250 to 300 propagandize children alone who use this use to strech Murree Road before travelling onwards to Abbottabad city,” pronounced Basit, another resident, adding that a aged people and women also benefitted from a use that costs usually Rs10 for one sided travel.
The towering temporary handle car, called “Paharon ke shehzadi” (Princess of a mountains) by a locals, resembles a bucket carrying territory of a hooded Suzuki collect adult van. It is trustworthy to steel cables and a pulley and is operated by an engine-driven motor.
The handle wire covers a camber of about 650 meters and it operates on a stream during a tallness of 10,000 feet with long-lived upsurge of a purgation waters of a stream beneath, providing a monumental and breathtaking perspective of a surrounding valley.
The use also serves picnickers and tourists who can't means a time and income to go to Ayubia in a jeep.
However, when a pulley of a use malfunctioned final week, it left a dozen propagandize children swinging precariously in mid-air several thousand feet above a distracted waters for scarcely dual hours.
The use was swinging indefinitely and a box of loosening opposite a owners was purebred on a orders of Tehsil Nazim Sardar Shujah Ahmed.
The nazim, when contacted, reliable that a handle automobile use stays swinging on his orders as a owners have unsuccessful to secure a technical worthiness certificate for their cab.
Ahmed forked out that this was a second time that a handle automobile had malfunctioned while carrying passengers. He pronounced that unless a owners commissioned fail-safe measures and remonstrate a internal administration that it was protected to lift passengers, accede to revive services will not be granted.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 20th, 2016.
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