Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

Help in streamlining traffic, SP tells civic body

ANANTAPUR: Superintendent of Police M.S. Raveendra on Thursday sought the cooperation of the civic body and its corporators for streamlining the road traffic in the district headquarters town. He suggested the civic body to take several measures to ease the ever-increasing problem.

In a specially convened meeting of the civic body, the SP suggested immediate shifting of wholesale fruit market in the old town to the market yard on the Gooty road, as heavy vehicles frequenting to and from the fruit market for loading and unloading of fruits were causing major problem in the movement of regular vehicular traffic on the narrow roads.

Mayor R. Parasuram accepted the proposal and said that a link road between the fruit market area and the market yard had already been formed for the purpose of movement of heavy vehicles from Tadipatri and Gooty side. Another link road too was being proposed by the municipal corporation, he stated. He, however, did not specify when the fruit market would be shifted.

Citing movement of cattle on the roads as another major obstacle in the free flow of traffic, the SP suggested allotment of a site and construction of a shed by the municipal corporation so that the traffic police could shift the cattle roaming on the roads to such a facility. In proportion to the population of the town, floating crowd and the vehicular density about 18 places required traffic signals in the town against the existing three, he suggested.

As per the norms, the civic body was required to arrange traffic signals and hand them over to the traffic police. The SP also told the meeting that another 18 police constables were being allotted to the traffic wing for regulation of traffic.

Further, he suggested shifting of electricity poles and transformers on the main roads, again a responsibility of the civic body and not that of the AP Transco or CPDCL.

The traffic congestion could be eased by about 30 per cent with proper utilisation of the available infrastructure, Mr. Raveendra noted.

Though a few corporators raised the issue of parking of vehicles on the roads due to illegal use of parking area by several commercial complexes, building and apartments for residential and commercial purposes, the meeting did not take it up stating that it had legal problems.

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