LAHORE: THE Gawalmandi Food Street is no more an attraction for the Lahorites and other visitors, including foreigners, for reasons best know to the City District Government, Lahore, which removed gates of the street and abstained the shopkeepers from setting tables and chairs in the open.
The majority of the food streets shopkeepers are terming the orders a move of the Punjab rulers to take revenge from their political rivals who have been running the affairs of the food street for the past eight years.
Following the recent directions of the Lahore DCO, the shopkeepers are not allowed to set their tables and chairs in the street as they used to do in the past while the gates of the street, which were closed off for traffic after evening, have been removed and traffic flow is allowed on the road.
For the last several days, those who did not know that the food street had literary finished, have been facing serious disappointment after reaching the area. Now only the food outlets having enough seating capacity in their shops are running while the rest of shops are closed or out of business.
Is that true?
It was a main attraction for late diners, and a place to hang out for those of us who only get to visit there once in a few years. What are the vendors going to do? Lease shops?
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