One-way maze: Acid test on Monday

One-way maze: Acid test on Monday
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: Monday is bound to be a dreadful day for the traffic police as the new Richmond-Residency road one-ways will see real action during rush hour.

The police have already learnt their lessons by permitting motorists to move straight onto St. Mark’s Road from Hayes Road and reversing the Magarath Road on-way from Shoppers’ Stop to ITI circle.

But the knot -- a halt atop the Richmond Circle flyover continues. DCP Traffic East M.A. Saleem told this website’s newspaper on Sunday that the manned signal atop the flyover to regulate crisscrossing vehicles from Richmond Road to Mission Road and those from K.H. Road to Residency Road would continue.

‘‘There is very less traffic from Mission Road. If the one-way is reversed there, the flyover will be under-utilised. Because of the present arrangement, there is no congestion below the flyover, which had been the most difficult one to manage,’’ he said.

Though they have already started allowing vehicles from Hayes Road to St. Mark’s Road directly on Residency Road, the traffic police are yet to remove the sign-board banning the same. When it was pointed out, the DCP said they would remove the sign-board on Monday.

‘‘We will retain a signal at the Cash Pharmacy junction to allow vehicles from Hayes Road onto St. Mark’ Road. This will also help in restricting the huge flow of vehicles on Residency Road which ends up in a jam near Mayo Hall,’’ he said.

A change on the direction of traffic on Commissariat Road has also come in along with the new system. ‘‘Earlier, vehicles could go from HOSMAT towards Commissariat Road. Now, it has been reversed as the vehicles can go towards HOSMAT to proceed onto Airport Road,’’ he said