FAISALABAD: City Traffic Police along with Regional Transport Authority (RTA) has launched a crackdown against the use illegal gas cylinders in public transport vehicles.
In this connection, Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Maqsood Ahmad Lone and Secretary RTA Ahmad Raza visited the field and checked various vehicles on different routes for action against illegal gas cylinders.
Speaking on the occasion, the CTO said that use of illegal use of gas/LPG cylinders in public transports not only poses severe threats to the lives of the travelers but also causes damage to their properties. Therefore, a crackdown was launched against illegal use of gas cylinders in the vehicles and this operation would continue without any discrimination by adopting zero tolerance policy, he added.
He also directed the traffic police to conduct challans and get cases registered against those drivers in whose vehicles the illegal gas/LPG cylinders were found installed.
He also appealed the owners and drivers of public transport vehicle
s to remove illegal gas cylinders from their vehicles voluntarily or be ready to face the music.