 Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 17: Jammu and Kashmir government has planned to replace "non-functional" signal lights with hi-tech ones in all 30 locations across Jammu district.
"The traffic lights installed with fanfare and hope that it will help in streamlining messy traffic problem in the district failed to operate and most of them went "defunct" in a short span of three years," a traffic police official here told .
He said most of the lights have either gone defunct or faulty, due to which the traffic problem instead of being resolved got more worst.
"The tenders for new traffic lights have been placed and once it gets approved, installation of new lights will begin," he added.
He added that initially in the first phase, only Jammu district having 30 major traffic-hit locations will be covered.
"New signal lights will be hi-tech ones having video recording cameras, censors and other gadgets, which will not only help in meeting the traffic snarls but at the same time will identify the violators," he asserted.
He, however, said those jumping signals, violating traffic rules, will be identified easily once the lights gets installed and they can be fined accordingly even if they escape from the spot. Most of the signal lights are non-operational in Jammu district, which has added miseries to the commuters due to no control on rising traffic problems. According to reports, Jammu has already entered the danger zone in view of traffic hazards. Jammu Municipal Corporation will be the department taking care of lights installation in assistance with J&K Traffic police. "We have done the re-tenderisation and hopefully by year ending, new lights will be in place," Manmohan Singh, JMC Commissioner here said. |
