Wednesday, December 08, 2004

One more caller called after reading about Badarpur border’s problem published in my column yesterday. Advocate Chaman Prakash called me to say that police is to be blamed for all that mess happening at Badarpur Border. He says, “Behind Shahi Masjid, there’s a bus stop and the traffic police should regulate them. These buses keep on standing there for a long time blocking the traffic on the road and also increasing congestion. Same position is there on Jaitpur Mode too. RTVs keep on standing there waiting for passengers leading to congestion. The traffic cops say nothing to them. If these two things are checked, it will ease traffic flow.”According to Delhi Traffic Police’s website, there is restriction on movement of heavy vehicles from 7.30 am to 11 am and 5 pm to 9.30 pm on Mathura Road from Central Road Research Institute to Badarpur border. But Chaman claims, “Cops allow these trucks to move even during the restriction time. This rule should be applied in stricter manner. Another point is that cops are present only during jams otherwise they are not present. Their presence only can check the building up of the jam there.” I think that restriction time in the evening should increase till 11 pm on all borders. Another call that I got was from Noida. Anubhav says, “I live in VSNL apartments in Sector 62, Noida. The vehicles move very fast in front of our colony. Yesterday (Monday), also there was an accident involving a pedestrian and a vehicle. The person just escaped with injuries. Like this there are frequent accidents on this road. Something should be done to check the speed of the vehicles.”I think that Noida traffic police should propose to construct a speed breaker there. This will check the speeding vehicles there. Another problem that is gripping Noida is the call centre Qualises and Sumos. Call centres are bustling in Noida and so are the numbers of their service vehicles. In fact Ronit called me from Noida to say that due to these fast moving vehicles, accidents have increased. Noida traffic police should check them as it is done in Delhi.

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