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Salem gears up to sensitise road users Law & order
Rearrangement of town bus stops is the need of the hour, says R. Ilangovan
Salem city will witness a week-long Road Safety awareness exercise that opens on Friday. The Regional Transport Office in co-ordination with Police and Fire and Rescue Services has drawn-out an exhaustive programme schedule, which include awareness rallies, seminars, distribution of handbills and raids, to take the message of traffic disc
ipline to the city’s citizens, a majority of whom are steadfastly showing their penchant for breaching the rules.
That the city’s traffic management is woefully pathetic primarily due to ineffective enforcement is an undisputed fact. It is not uncommon to see many of the traffic cops, who manage posts at important junctions, remain mute witnesses to chaos. It happens during peak hours of morning even at the important Five Roads Junction whenever the automatic signals go dead. Though senior police officers claim that the shortage of manpower is the reason for the ineffective traffic management, no concrete move to overcome the crisis has been taken so far.
The city with a burgeoning population of 9 lakh and rapidly increasing vehicles has become a virtual dead trap for its citizens with a sharp increase in road accidents.
Citizens say that many simple steps can make the traffic management more effectively. To restore method in the city’s mad traffic, we need not go for big activities, says a resident. Rearrangement of town bus stops as in Chennai is the need of the hour. Many bus stops are closer to traffic junctions causing heavy snarls by parking one after another.
Another area where the City Traffic Police needs expert suggestions is one-way management. With the city sporting narrow roads and innumerable streets and lanes, the judicious implementation of one-way rules is the inherent necessity.
Sources in Police say that answers to these pangs can possibly be found in a detailed study undertaken some seven years back. The report is gathering dust somewhere, they say.
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi recently expressed his dismay at the loss of lives on roads and asked the district and police administrations to be strict in enforcing traffic rules.
Nearly 11,000 lives from 54,000 accidents have been lost so far this year. A study says that the number of vehicles increases by 10 per cent every year. More effectiveness is needed in this sphere, people say.
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