Taking cognizance of the problem of day-long traffic jams around the court premises, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has ordered the state government to consider shifting the Awadh bus stand located at Kamta, Lucknow elsewhere.
The Division Bench of Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi and Justice Om Prakash Shukla passed this order while hearing a PIL filed by Oudh Bar Association High Court Lucknow Bench.
The PIL has raised an issue as regards the relocation of a bus station situated in the vicinity of the Court. The members of the Bar contend that the heavy vehicular traffic around the area of High Court is creating public inconvenience which has also added to the pollution in the area and it is for this reason, the Traffic Police of the Government of U.P has made a proposal for re-sitement of the bus stand to some other well-connected place on the outskirts of the city.
On the proposal forwarded by the Police Commissioner, Lucknow to the State Government on 24.06.2023, the Court hoped and trust that the State Government shall consider and take a decision expeditiously at the appropriate level, for which the UPSRTC may also be consulted before allotting the place for carrying out the road transport service.
Let necessary decisions be taken by the State Government at the earliest so that the issue raised before the Court is brought to its logical end, the Court said.
“It is clarified that UPSRTC shall not ply the buses through the service lanes near the High Court campus.
The Managing Director, UPSRTC, Lucknow shall also place necessary data of identified places where the local passengers shall board and alight from the buses plied by UPSRTC. Publicity in this regard shall also be made in the city so that the traffic rules may not be violated for incurring any other inconvenience”, the order reads.
The Court has fixed the next hearing of the petition in the month of January, 2024.