Ludhiana: Whether or not you are in a hurry to reach the city's Sahnewal airport, only a combine of dexterous driving skills and a gritty resolve, to negotiate the route lacking signboards amid haphazard traffic movement, is what can help you reach your destination.
For those coming from the heart of the city, an otherwise 20-minute journey, spread over 5 km, to the airport has become a 90-minute agony.
Tucked away in a sleepy village of Sahnewal, the airport is located on a deteriorating road that meets the National Highway 1, where the ongoing construction of the six-lane project has been affecting the average speed of vehicles. And, absence of traffic cops is making the things worse. What's incredible is that there is only one signboard that announces the location of Sahenwal airport, and this is barely a few minutes from the place itself. So anybody who is not aware of the airport's location would be left wondering about how to reach there.
'The construction of the much needed highway is welcome but there is no management of traffic by the police. There are no boards with clear directions mentioned for the airport,' Rakesh Varma, a manager at a rice mill, who has moved from Bathinda to Ludhiana.
05/07/11 Rohan Dua/Times of India
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