mohali stray animals especially cows roaming freely in mohali and zirakpur are not only blocking traffic but are also causing accidents the locals fear that if the problem continues to exist then this can lead to an increase in fatal road accidents in the areamla nk sharma has assured to look into the problems faced by the locals in the coming house meet we are going to devise a strategy to deal with the stray animals he saidstray dogs also loiter on the main roads connecting tricity and the residents feel unsafe balbir singh resident of zirakpur village informed that he narrowly escaped death a dozen times due to these stray animals dogs and cows are the major reason behind the accidentsthe locals complain that there is no team to manage the roaming animals even if there is a team the staff never reaches the location on time said one of the residentsaccording to sources some minor accidents take place almost every day due to these wandering animals in the last 15 days two accidents have already taken place two people have been injured in the accidents which happened on zirakpur flyover and airport roadsarabjot singh a resident of phase 9 said this has become a perennial problem we have been facing traffic woes for many years now the mc must talk to the police to control the traffic congestion even the mayor and senior police officers face problems due to these stray animals blocking the trafficresidents stated that more than 100 stray animals can be spotted under the zirakpur flyover some of these animals also block traffic on the national highway drivers feel unsafe while driving at night because the animals suddenly come running down the streets forcing the driver to pull the breaksmeanwhile the residents also complained about the design of the flyover in zirakpur pillars have occupied more than 60 feet of space and nothing more can be constructed in the area a traffic police official of zirakpur said more than 50000 vehicles ply on this highway and there are hardly 10 cops to control the traffic if we stop someone to give challan traffic gets blocked he also added that there isnt enough number of cops to stop the stray animals loitering on the roads we cannot hit the animals due to certain reasons we move them away keeping in mind the traffic rules he saidin the last two weeks two stray animals were hit by heavy vehicles their bodies were spotted lying on roads for more than 24 hours