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How to regulate maddening traffic? Law & order
Chaotic traffic of Salem city eludes any convincing solution, says R. Ilangovan
Citizens of Salem of course are happy when the participants including the officials had placed a list of suggestions to improve its traffic management at its recent District Traffic Safety Council meeting. The meeting chaired by the Collector is a routine exercise in which a few issues pertaining to the traffic would be discussed. Suggestions for over bridges, medians at arterial roads, speed breakers and installation of high mast lamps were some of the
suggestions which had been placed before the council.
However, the chaotic traffic in the city is a highly debatable subject and still eludes any convincing solution. Here the traffic violators are not a rare breed. They bulldoze their way in wrong sides and jump signals at important junctions. The inadequate city traffic police, on most of these occasions, remain a mute spectator.
Lack of clear instructions from their superiors just renders the traffic police unnoticed at these junctions. They neither have the power to book anyone who bends the law nor could they insist on the violators to mend their ways.
Traffic Inspectors and cops however resort to occasional bookings of a few cases related to absence of documents, drunken driving and three-in-one rides.
Violations of traffic rules such as haphazard parking in front of shops and complexes, driving on the wrong side and over speed of town buses are some of the hot issues that rarely attract action. These violators jeopardise the lives of those who religiously adhere to the rules.
The manning of traffic at Five Roads and Four Roads Junctions needs to be studied closely.
Here many town buses stop just near the junctions causing heavy traffic snarls and chaos.
No policeman on duty would even stir to discipline the crew reportedly fearing repercussions.
They just prefer to remain on the sidelines.
Unless these issues are sorted out on war-footing, there is no point in discussing other things, says a resident.
Traffic police of course need strong manpower and will power with no interference to discipline this city’s mad traffic.
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