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No system to regulate traffic chaos here

Staff Reporter

Signals non-functional; inadequate policemen

PUDUCHERRY: Traffic movement has become chaotic from Ajantha Signal to Kottakuppam during peak hours, as there is no system in place to regulate vehicle movement.

The reason the narrow stretch could not hold the traffic volume, which has increased by five fold during the last five years, is due to insufficient traffic personnel to regulate traffic.

It is more chaotic at the Clock Tower junction as the traffic signal put up there do not function and most of the days traffic police men are not posted to control vehicle movement.

One of the busiest, with vehicles coming into the town from the East Coast Road and going towards Chennai, has to cross this junction. Then there are vehicles coming from 100 Feet Road into the town. With no signal or policemen to regulate traffic, movement of vehicles become extremely difficult and sometime drivers enter into physical blows due to the melee.

Traffic policemen say that signal do not have any technical faults but they cannot operate it, as the road was very narrow. "We tried to operate the signal six months ago. But it resulted in more chaos," said a senior traffic personnel.

The traffic department had several times taken up the issue of widening the road with the Public Works Department. "However we are yet to get a reply from the department," he added. They complain that they do not have enough force to deploy for manual regulation of traffic. Since the widening of the road was not expected to happen in the near future, the department now plans to shift the signal to Sivaji Statue junction on 100 Feet Road.

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