Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram   

Meet to ease traffic congestion

Thiruvananthapuram: City Police Commissioner Ravada Azad Chandrasekhar on Sunday met representatives of various political parties to discuss measures to ease the morning rush hour traffic congestion caused mainly by the spate of demonstrations, protest marches and street clashes.

The traffic situation in the city had worsened with the start of the Legislative Assembly session. Protest marches and demonstrations in front of the Assembly complex and the Secretariat often cause traffic to move at a snail’s pace on the M.G. Road.

The members of the public are finding it increasingly difficult to access offices, hospitals, educational institutions, the airport, railway stations and bus stands. Motorists are forced to take detours owing to the “unexpected” traffic diversions put in place by the police. Politicians who attended the meeting agreed not to appropriate the entire carriageway width of the road and to give sufficient space for traffic coming in the opposite direction to pass unimpeded.

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