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Written By murali772 - 20 December, 2011
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The new Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Dr Saleem, IPS, has instituted a Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC), comprising traffic 'experts' from across the city, which incidentally includes three PRAJA members - Pranav, Sathya, and myself - to interact with the traffic police at the highest level on a monthly basis, with a view to finding solutions for the city's vexatious traffic problems, at the macro level.
Three meetings have taken place so far, the deliberations at which may be accessed here and here. PRAJA members can perhaps offer to take up city wide issues at the TAC, if a consensus has been arrived at on the solutions through discussions on praja.in.
Simultaneously, meetings are being held at various traffic sub-divisional levels also to find solutions at micro levels. And, these may perhaps be taken up with the jurisdictional traffic sub-division, like in this specific case.
Muralidhar Rao
COMMENTS
psaram42 - 20 December, 2011 - 09:46
Congratulations for yet another mile stone for Praja. Pranav, Murali and Satya. Great going!
rs - 20 December, 2011 - 16:53
I was looking throught he minutes and while I have noticed some of the changes ( auto stand in front of Mantri Mall ) which I think are positive there is one huge disastrous situation which perhaps it would be good to address. This is the circle near Cantonment station - where Millers Road, Jaymahal Road, Cant Station Road and MV. Jayaram Road meet.
If one hopes to go from Jayaram road to Millers Road eastwards one runs the risk of getting hit from two places - essentially one has to cross traffic from Millers Road road Jaymahal Road.
Also traffic from Millers road westwards has to travel an extra 1km to go straight - the way things are designed. This result, two wheelers try all kinds of illegal manouvres to avoid this.
All these problems can be solved by making it in to a big circle roundabout instead of the awfully complicated existing situation.
Ramesh
@rs, there used to be circle before!
kbsyed61 - 20 December, 2011 - 17:20
@rs,
I am not sure how many knows this that there used to be a 'round about' (circle) before at the Old Overbridge near Cantonment Station.
I agree the present provisions are not the way to solve the problem, also in high traffic volumes, round abouts become bottleneck and therefore are not preferred.
Certainly this junction flow needs to be redesigned to bring in safety and optimum flow of traffic.
A on-spot survey by Praja?
rs - 20 December, 2011 - 18:02
I think a roundabout with traffic signals will work fine - I suspect before there were no traffic signals. The main problem is not the flow of traffic but more the design is such that some of the turns are risky. And the fact that some traffic has to travel an extra 1 km needlessly ( which also causes peopel who can violating it ). Added to this brilliant design is a bus stop in the middle of the junction.
Ramesh
Hope some good comes out of it.
rs - 20 December, 2011 - 16:45
Congratulations ! I hope this has some positive effect. Having spent a lot of time analyzing the situation in Malleswaram I would be happy to pass on my analysis - some of which I have posted and it has been discussed elsewhere.
I read somewhere that Dr. Saleem is keen on one ways, which i think is a good thing and is an important aspect in solving the situation in many areas.
Ramesh
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