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A Revitalisation Of Traffic Management Plan And The Impacts Of Hawker In Saddar Bazaar Karachi, Pakistan

. Furqan Javed Arain* Sania Rehman Memon** , Hira Ovais * ¸Abdul Waheed Memon ** Salman Mateen*


Abstract

The urban economy in any society represents primarily the use generating sources the formal organized and also the informal unorganized sector. In most Asian country cities the urban poor survive by operating within the informal sector. For these urban poor, street vendition is a method of earning a living. However, few hawkers live close to their place of labor and travel long distances by bus or two-wheelers. It is true that hawker’s encroachment reduce the area vacant for walkers and travelers which creates traffic congestions. Traffic blocking is one main problem that most of public suffer every day in a big city like Karachi. Karachi’s central coach station is additionally set in Saddar, therefore connecting it with different areas of Karachi making an enormous issue as Encroachment in Saddar is outlined because the outlaw occupation or global organization authorised use of belongings and land. Sporadically, anti-encroachment drives by the town government have evicted these hawkers and vendors out of the Bazaar. The proposal present in many alternatives to the traffic plan, Re-routing public transport Remove hawker’s settlement it develop Saddar into a pedestrian zone the concepts behind this proposals type the premise of a future revitalisation plan for Saddar and Area cognitive map, then Saddar may often reborn into a multi-class amusement and recreational space that the current day socially fragmented metropolis urgently desires. The data has been collected from the respondent and visitors of Saddar bazaar to gather the main problems through questionnaire survey to observe existing conditions of Saddar habitants Revitalize the original life style of Saddar; making it a shopping and cultural magnet for visitors as well as tourists.

Keywords: central bus station, Encroachment, hawker’s settlement

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