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Driving your car once in two days?

BANGALORE: The Traffic Police are thinking of introducing an “alternate day run” system for private vehicles wherein vehicles ending with even and odd registration numbers will be allowed to ply on alternate days on the city roads.

A proposal is being sent to the Government for final approval, according to a senior traffic police official. This proposal was one among the several made by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) to decongest the city roads of private vehicles and provide an efficient public transport system.

If the Government accepts the proposal, vehicles ending with odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 and even numbers 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 will be allowed to ply on alternate days during the weekdays.

The restriction will not be in place on Sunday. The rule, however, will not be applicable to public transport (buses, goods carriers, autorickshaws and taxis), government and emergency service vehicles.

The enforcement of this rule, the official said, is likely to reduce the volume of traffic on city roads at least by 30 per cent. He said the rule by discouraging private vehicles coming onto the roads, will give a fillip to public transport which is severely affected by a large number of private vehicles.

The regulator as well as the public transport service provider have been forced to conceive this idea following the phenomenal growth of vehicles in the city, crossing the three-million mark.

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