Nuisance bikers in Rawalpindi
May 30, 2021
Rawalpindi : Have you ever seen bikers shooting through the city streets or swarming places like markets barely missing pedestrians? They weave in and out of the crowd. They blast over speed breakers, barely missing pedestrians. They go too fast with little time to recover if something goes wrong. They ride the wrong way on one-way streets. They ride on the sidewalk. There is none to look after them. Bikers have been the bane of my pedestrian Rawalpindi living. I have seen a pedestrian and biker accident and this was probably the real beginning of my annoyance with them. I was crossing a one-way looking in the direction traffic should be coming from when a messenger bike came flying from the opposite direction nearly running me over. I was in a crosswalk as well. The biker had even the audacity to yell at me, says Muzaffar Hussain, a retired headmaster of a local school.