COMMUTERS LECTURE CHAIN STORES ON OFFLOADING PRODUCTS

COMMUTERS LECTURE CHAIN STORES ON OFFLOADING PRODUCTS

By Lumbiwe Mwanza

CHAIN stores must stop allowing trucks offloading their products from packing on the main roads but must be parked in backyards to stop creating unnecessary congestion for motorists, the Commuter Rights Association of Zambia (CRAZ) has charged.

Speaking to The Scoop, CRAZ president Aron Kamuti said as sanity was being restored in Lusaka’s Central Business District (CBD), it was important that all aspects that caused unnecessary congestion should be addressed and that chain stores were mostly culprits.

Mr. Kamuti said that offloading trucks for Pick n Pay located at Society Business Park should not be offloading along Cha Cha Cha Road as that created unnecessary congestion.

He said that the local authorities should ensure that all factors that promoted disorderly activities were stopped with the view to cleaning up the streets of town.

He added that citizens with the tendency of boarding buses along busy roads should also be penalized.

“We want to appreciate the local authority for their efforts in creating sanity to the CBD but we also urge the local authority to ensure that there is a stop to all activities that inconvenience other road users. Offloading trucks, for example, for Pick n Pay located at Society Business Park should not be offloading along Cha Cha Cha Road but should be in the backyard to avoid inconveniencing other road users.

“Even those citizens that like boarding buses along the roads should be penalized for example, to do community service and that way, sanity will be restored,” Mr. Kamuti said.