Signboard misleads Golden Temple visitors

Neeraj Bagga
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, July 9

A signboard, installed to inform visitors about the direction of the Golden Temple, is causing confusion to those coming from the GT road.

The display board has been installed at beginning point of the elevated road on the GT road. Installed by a private bank, it guides people to go straight for the railway station and Bhandari railway overbridge, but for the Golden Temple, the board shows an arrow towards the left side.

Sukhwinder Singh Narula, a resident of nearby Panjpir flats, says motorists misconstrue the direction and start reversing their vehicles to take the left flank of the road to take turn. Wheres vehicles need to ascend the elevated road and then descend through the first slope on the left side of the elevated road to take another elevated road from Gurdwara Phula Singh, he adds.

According to another resident, Jaspinder Singh, when a vehicles stops at the beginning point of the elevated road, it creates risk of accidents. It is further accentuated when they start reversing their vehicles. “The signboard needs to be installed on the elevated road,” he adds.

ADCP (Traffic) Dilbagh Singh said, “Since the matter has been brought to my notice, I will direct the staff concerned to remove it and re-install it at an appropriate spot.”