“Footpaths are no longer shopping stalls”

Kathmandu
October 20, 2008
The streets and footpaths are not busy in new road in front of RNAC. People are walking on footpath. Rojan Paudel feels it’s amazingly freedom to walk on footpath. We had to walk on the roads where tempos were parked. It would be wild walking in these areas to reach destination anyway.
This happened when Metro police and traffic police started to clear the area where footpath shops had displaced the people walking from the footpaths since the last week. This is just an example. Kalanki, Ratnapark, Baneswar, Purano Buspark etc. are cleared by the police. The metropolice has planned to omit such shops at any cost in the hectic places in Kathmandu valley. Traffic Police Rajen Bhetwal says that now they are making the city more managed. Traffic jam and accidents are diminishing. Public should evaluate this and reaction the happening which helps us to come up with better solution in such things. He further added any day and night buses have to be boarded at Gongabu. Every passenger cannot stop at any other places.
Ramesh Chaudhari, a lonely shopkeeper at the footpath of Baneshwar in Monday morning, says that he has just kept for a while there with shivering voice. He added he can run away with all the goods in no time however he attempts to make money.
Deepak Chaulagain, a tempo driver, says that occupying the footpath is genuinely irresponsibility. He added that the really needy ones must be managed at proper places for selling the things. Such anarchy cannot be tolerated at all.