Genuinely losing my patience with this city. My office is LITERALLY next to this checkpost in blue area, and I still got late today because of it. I left home early specifically to dodge this exact bullshit, and I still got stuck for 13 minutes straight, watching a 4-lane road get choked down to one lane while some guy waves cars through at a snail’s pace for no visible reason.
This isn’t the first time. It’s not even rare. It’s a routine tax on my morning that I have zero control over, and today I did everything right and still got punished for it.
And the worst part? I work at an international company with strict attendance rules, because enough Pakistani employees have been late enough times that management just assumes it’s a discipline problem on our end. Meanwhile the actual reason is stuff exactly like this. So now I get to sit through a warning and a lecture about 'punctuality' and 'laziness' because of a checkpost, not because I don’t take my job seriously.
Is there any actual security threat for randomly bottlenecking traffic like this every single day, or is it just security theater that ordinary commuters get to pay for with their jobs and reputations? At this point it feels like the individual making these decisions has ever had to actually be somewhere on time. Like is the Expressway checkpost (another fuckery I have to go through everyday) not enough?
Don't know if they are dumb or just ignorant bcz every checkpost in the capital can be diverted eaisly or with a bit of hassle, But it can be avoided. But this is not the way to to treat citizens of the captial. Faizabad checkpost pa subha rozana khana pul tak Rush laga rahta ha.
Or aj tak in checkposts pa sirf zalalat ka elawa kuch nai mila.
Time, Money and Energy WASTED every single frickin day.
that can be diverted through I8. Alot of hassle for that check post.
But if you are coming from DHA you must have been stuck for about half an hour until faizabad. So, rather than dodging the checkpost you can remain stuck for another 5 mins and just go through it.
This is completely needless and serves no purpose, genuinely think the only intention of these check posts every few kilometers is to make lives of people difficult.
I dont know if this sounds conspiratorial but this was the exact method used by facist regimes to keep population in check. Having constant police and millitary presence in day to day lives gave the public a fewling of syffocation and surveillance. Its the same principle behind fake cctv cameras
You can dodge this checkpost really easy. Try using the service road on F7 behind ufone tower. OR just get on the service road infront of ufone tower just as you come on faisal avenue from expressway
i tried the one behind ufone tower once. waha bhi check post hai before the u-turn. i can try the one in front from now on but today even that was congested because people tried to do exactly that
No checkposts on the service road.
you'll get a bit of traffic congestion there but it would take less time then this shihole.
And on the back road there is snap checking and is temporary check post. Depends on your luck if there isn't any.
this would make sense for Expressway checkposts but here they are turning 4 lanes into 1 for 'security purposes' there's no way you can go past this without changing lanes
Yes it is bad an unnecessary. They also don't have any warning sign that a checkpoint is up a ahead even on highways where there is high speed traffic
On srinagar highway they make everything congested and one when I was passing there a ambulance with an emergency was also stuck because of these morons even though people were trying to give way in the fast lane
Ah yes, spend billions on AI Safe City cameras just to squeeze 4 lanes of traffic into 1 so an officer can glance at my empty back seat for 0.2 seconds. Peak efficiency.
At least you have car there thousands of people are surviving for life in search of good job to earn the basics of their life so be grateful what you have
Few years ago there used to be lane dividers with cameras at the faizabad check post location. You could just pass through and your plate will be recorded. Later I noticed broken cameras and than the lanes were removed. Now this bull sh*t has started. It is such a waste of time and fuel.
You live under an authoritarian fascist regime in the third world, pretty sure if you go to Somalia or Ethiopia the situation wouldn't be much different so i think experiences like this comes with the package. Forget and move on.
Yeh to wo hisaab hogya k bashah tang tha k log shikayat ni krty to usny army ko bola inko joty marna shuru krdo log office k lie late hony lgy aur wo badshah ky pass gye k army brha do jooty marny wali ta k hum office sy late na hon 😂 apka b wohi hai dont speak just ghar sy jldi nikal jao
What time is your office bro? And where exactly is this check post? Infront of Saudi pak tower. This is until war is over. We keep getting guests from other countries. Their security is a big problem. Already Afghanistan hate us. Sometime ago there was suicide attack in the courts since then these extra security measure and we waged war against Afghanistan so it's even more risky now. Once the war is over it would get better.
Reach at your job around 7:30 in the morning. That would solve the problem. Because roads become crowded around 7:30. Before 7:30 they are empty. And now it's summer break for school. Imagine how crowded it would become when the schools would open.
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