mumbai a senior bombay high court judge on tuesday said he has stopped travelling to the suburbs on weekends due to the poor conditions of roads across the cityi dont travel to the suburbs on saturdays and sundays it is impossible to travel said justice vidyasagar kanade he made the remarks while heading a division bench with justice c v bhadang which was hearing a petition by private tourist bus operators who have their offices at sitaram building near crawford market they moved court last week after a police crackdown on their buses on d n road and palton road for halting and causing traffic congestion and obstruction to pedestrians while hearing the matter the bench made an observation about the state of the roads all roads are dug up the situation is very bad it is advisable not to travel in the evenings on saturdays and sundays said justice kanade it also batted for pedestrian rights there is no one to take up the cause of pedestrians hawkers have taken over most of the roads said justice kanade adding that this is a city of professionals who are not bothered about these things he thereafter spoke of how he avoids travel on weekendsin their petition bus operators said that after a ban on plying buses in south mumbai was lifted recently cops began to crack down on them they filed firs against drivers including under the indian penal code section 149 for unlawful assembly the petition said section 149 presupposes that people assemble with the intention of committing crime and passengers are only interested in boarding the buses it further said that the entire exercise is to prevent buses coming to south mumbai by resorting to filing false firstheir advocate g s hegde argued that halting buses for picking about 10 passengers can never cause obstruction to pedestrians and traffic and can never lead to a law and order problem but the government advocate vishal thadani said at a time 40 to 150 buses are parked on the streets which causes a tremendous traffic jam and problems for movement of vehicles and the publicthe judges said the police must regulate these buses in any circumstance there must be no inconvenience to pedestrians said justice kanade when thadani said 34 lakh people come to south mumbai daily justice kanade said why dont you construct the coastal road as soon as possible the court has asked both sides to resolve the issue