The installation of barricades along the Atta market in Sector 27 to deter hawkers from encroaching on the road and footpaths and reduce snarls on the choked stretch has borne little fruit. Hawkers have been allotted stalls at the vending zone near Botanical Garden metro station but are yet to leave the market, which is opposite Sector 18. Now, the makeshift vends have spread beyond the barricades to the road, adding to the traffic chaos.
About 100 hawkers organised impromptu rally along Bertram Street, Chowringhee Place, JL Nehru Road and Lindsay Street before returning to Bertram Street.
The KMC had drawn a yellow line on the pavements on the night of January 6, demarcating two-thirds of the width of the footpaths that have to be kept free for pedestrians