A high-level committee has been constituted by Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar, to look into revamping the poor traffic system in the capital.
The committee will be headed by DIG, Ranchi Zone and all the stakeholders of the traffic system will be on board the process to accomplish the task. “The committee will look into the suggestions that were put for consideration in the meeting like places where the road and squares needs to be widened in the city. I have given one-week time to the committee to submit its report,” said the DGP.
The committee will comprise Senior SSP Ranchi, SP Ranchi besides Chief Executive Officer of Ranchi Municipal Corporation and representatives of various associations. The ambitious overhauling of the traffic system also depends on cooperation between various government departments like the municipal corporation, department of forest, public works department and department of Road.
The suggestions floated during the meeting included one-way traffic in Main Road during a part of the day, widening roads and squares, identifying places for parking of vehicles, earmarking government land under RMC for creating additional parking space, reducing the number of gaps in the divider in Main Road, rectifying faulty traffic signals, making arrangements of alternate routes for school buses during peak hour, controlling movement of rickshaws in Main Road, shifting electricity poles and transformers to the border of a road, alternative arrangements for footpath shopkeepers like night market or allowing markets to continue till late evening. Notwithstanding failure of similar efforts taken earlier the DGP expressed that some progress will be made in the direction of revamping the traffic system.
“This is the first initiative taken under my tenure and I hope that significant results will come out of the effort,” maintained Kumar. Meanwhile, the top-cop stressed upon strict implementation of traffic laws and suggested at starting a massive drive to control illegal parking in the city.