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| No traffic rules for minibuses on city roads | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 26: There seem to be no traffic rules for minibuses on the city roads here. These can stop in the middle of the road to pick and drop commuters, and swerve in the desired direction with impunity from law.
While the minibus drivers do so, the operators of cars and other vehicles are put to inconvenience.
Most of the traffic jams on the congested city roads here are caused because of them. When they stop in the middle of the road to pick, or drop a commuter, a long queue of other vehicles is formed behind them. The blaring car horns have no impact on them. No helpless car operator can move forward till the minibus gets to a side.
Even as traffic police cops are omnipresent on the city roads, minibus operators indulge in the worst kind of violation of the traffic norms.
And, instead of booking them under law, the cops are often seen exchanging pleasantries with them.
The traffic police have miserably failed to devise any
strategy to ensure smooth traffic on the roads despite the fact that the number of vehicles continued to swell with the passage of every day.
Hardly a day passes when two to three accidents do not occur on the city roads due to traffic mismanagement, or rash driving, or overloading.
Official sources said though the number of vehicles in the winter capital had crossed nearly six lakh mark, a mechanism to ensure smooth vehicular traffic was still to be devised.
Most of the minibus drivers are often seen indulging in overspeeding and overtaking in such a way as if there is no legal authority to punish them. Without caring for the consequences of careless driving, they swerve in all directions and stop in the middle of the road even when traffic is at its peak. They are an important means of public transport in the winter capital city.
The minibuses plying mostly on Gandhi Nagar, Trikuta Nagar, Talab Tillo, Janipur, Bakshi Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Satwari, Bahu Fort, Subash Nagar, Rehari, Amphalla, Muthi and Purkhoo routes are indulging in rash driving.
Traffic police do not book these traffic violators as a result of which they were faced with several allegations of corruption on roads.
Sources said the traffic police needed to do a self introspection and do something to improve their "bad" image.
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