While camera-assisted e-ticketing traffic management and surveillance system is nothing novel even to many a developing country, it is like a blot from the blue to motorists in Karachi who have hitherto been left virtually unstrained on the roads and highways in terms of speeding above the limit, driving without a licence, avoiding use of seatbelt and helmet while driving, overloading the vehicle, jumping the red light, parking illegally, etc. No wonder that within just six hours of the launch of TRACS (Traffic Regulation and Citation System) in the megalopolis, on Tuesday, as many as 2,662 traffic rules violations were recorded, eliciting Rs12.5 million in fines.

These seven and a half violations per minute offers an unquestionable justification of the strict deterrent system that has be

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