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| 'Added vehicular population, defunct traffic lights and dug out roads' Jammu faces grim traffic blues | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 31: Jammu is staring at yet another phase of thick traffic snarls as over 25000 government and private vehicles have added on to the vehicular population of the city with ensuing Darbar move. Dug out roads, defunct traffic signal lights and ill equipped traffic police are likely to complicate the problem.
Number of important arteries within and outside Jammu city have been dug by different agencies and roads have become narrow at many places where traffic jams have become a regular affair. The start of work on Vikram Chowk-Satwari fly over has also narrowed down the national highway which often witnesses huge traffic jams during peak hours.
The traffic police in Jammu has been caught napping as it has prepared no contingency plans looking into the poor condition of roads, defunct traffic lights and added vehicular population.
Unlike in Kashmir, where the traffic police and Motor vehicle department issue advisories to people before every religious event or during darbar move and identifies alternative routes for public transport to distribute load of additional traffic, it stays inert and complacent in Jammu. Sources in the traffic department said that there has been no instructions from senior officers of State Trafiic police to work out such contingency plans in Jammu.
The civil secretariat in Jammu is in old city where the traffic situation is already constrained and when darbar opens here, restrictions are imposed on many routes which put people through difficulties. Similarly, roads near Chand nagar, circular road and many other areas are in bad condition and are surely going to increase the traffic jams here. In all, City is fraught with serious traffic crisis till traffic police wakes up to the challenge in the wake of added vehicular population and dug out roads. |
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