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| BURDENED ROADS | | | Satwant Singh Rissam | 2/27/2018 11:21:02 PM |
| Every day when we go out to drive in and around Jammu city we never realize the intensity of moving traffic on roads around us. However, as soon as we get stuck in a traffic jam (which is witnessed at various places of Jammu city) we realize the steep rise in number of vehicles and of the traffic problem which has now already taken a chronic shape. Traffic problem in Jammu has started troubling everybody as thousands of vehicles are plying every day on Jammu roads. Moreover, it is said that every year almost 40 thousand new vehicles are being added on the roads of Jammu. Somewhere contributing to this problem are the mini-bus operators in Jammu who on daily basis create a massive mess on the roads. They in turn are also facilitated by some traffic cops who turn blind eye towards these mini-buses. Basically, by now there are multiple issues which have cropped up in past some years to take shape in form of this traffic problem. If we all, simply try to find why such problem has risen in past some years then for me it is somewhere all because of people at the helm of affairs who could not analyse the impact of this rising traffic on the Jammu roads in the years to come. Firstly, we can clearly see that there is no growth of road infrastructure in Jammu city. We all can see that our city in past 3 decades got only two flyovers which now could not serve the rising pressure of traffic. From this we can notice how the vehicles which kept growing on day to day basis created burdened roads which mainly were never made to serve this level of traffic. It shows how the successive governments continuously ignored the need of new roads and flyovers for Jammu city. In fact, if I talk of the already debated flyover projects from the BC Road to Amphalla & Jewel to Canal road then it is an open secret that these projects were abandoned only due to political pressure for facilitating some influential people who may have suffered because of these projects. Hence, this problem of daily traffic jams on roads is visible now in a deep shape.
Secondly, over these years we saw that most of the times the focus was on traffic management but this did not end the problem or either improved the deteriorating situation. In past, when the questions were asked to the traffic police here as to why they aren't able to regulate traffic in Jammu city, then the most common reply we got was that the traffic police here have a limited number of policemen and it becomes virtually impossible for the traffic department to manage all vehicles. This all made people quite disheartened & at times quite angry towards traffic policemen. Interestingly, in past some days the Jammu people are showing high hopes and regards for these traffic men in Jammu. These days a new phase has started wherein steps are being taken to get rid of this traffic problem. Suddenly, this all is because of the new IG of Traffic, Basant Rath, who is putting all his efforts to simplify things on roads here. The new IG has already pulled up lower ranking traffic cops on duty to regulate traffic strictly at all important points in & around city where we see traffic jam on daily basis. Not only this, he has also launched very strict drives to educate masses to follow traffic rules so that the problems of rising traffic can be regulated. Despite severe criticism by some people including some politicians he hasn't stopped with his this routine till now. Although I am also witnessing these efforts of the new IG yet I believe that the solution of this chronic problem is not possible without the support of people.
Thirdly, in addition to it no long term measures were adopted in order to provide parking area for the growing number of vehicles in the city. Resultant of this was that parking areas kept shrinking in comparison to vehicles on roads. In this aspect, the planners appeared lacking behind & no control measures were adopted by providing new parking structures. Presently, to deal with this problem of rapidly growing vehicular population it is required that parking infrastructure should be developed in Jammu. Growing number of vehicles with no road infrastructure and very less traffic management done in absence of parking spaces added to the problem on the roads in Jammu. If we don't work on these all issues to settle this traffic problem then the Jammu city will witness total disorder in years to come. By witnessing traffic being regulated at the hands of an officer of the rank of IG personally I think this is the last resort for solving the problem of traffic.
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, it should be taken as a warning that traffic problem on roads in Jammu has reached its threshold limit and without working on these multiple problems we won't be able to ease the burden on roads. |
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