Steps to ease chaos on roads

Steps to ease chaos on roads
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: As innumerable complaints about autorickshaws causing traffic snarls on busy roads in the city are pouring in, the traffic police have decided to segregate the ‘troublesome’ on the road.

After a pilot test on KG Road yielded favourable results, the traffic police are planning to introduce separate lanes for autorickshaws on many more city roads.

According to the police, the KG Road test turned out to be more successful than they expected. Other vehicles could travel at better speeds because autos were absent on their lane.

Speaking to this this website’s newspaper, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) M N Reddi said that the City will soon have a network of auto lanes.

‘‘The rules of traffic management clearly say that fast moving vehicles and the slow moving vehicles should not be allowed together. Though autorickshaws account for a meager two per cent of the total vehicular population, they were creating havoc on the roads and were also the major cause for slowing down traffic. Motorists can now travel at almost 60 km/hr on KG road which was a dream until Monday,’’ he said.

He said that the separate lane system will be introduced on all major roads in the City. On some other roads where traffic movement is modest, autorickshaws must stick to their lanes but other vehicles can also use the same lane.

MORE TRAFFIC SIGNALS: In order to manage the hectic traffic on city roads, more than 350 traffic signals would come up under the much awaited B-Trac project. Reddi said that more signal lights would enable them to manage the traffic at a larger scale.

"All big cities need more traffic signals to set the vehicular movement. Delhi has 700 traffic signals and we need at least 165 more signals in the central part of the City," he said.