In order to make people aware of the functioning of the BRTS and traffic rules on the BRTS corridor, the district administration has decided to allow free travel to representatives of various social and cultural organisations in the city, government officials and employees, students as well as the public representatives on BRTS buses before the actual trial of BRTS buses in the city.
This was informed by the district collector Akash Tripathi while holding a review meeting on the progress of BRTS in the city here on Saturday. In this regard, he said a plan was being chalked out for every day to enable people (representatives of various organisations and others) to a have a free travel on the BRTS buses on particular days.
The meeting among others was attended by the Indore municipal corporation commissioner Rakesh Singh, ASP (traffic) Anjana Tiwari, AICTSl CEO Sandip Soni and other senior officials of the Indore municipal corporation and the Indore Development Authority.
In the meeting, collector informed that apart from i-buses, running of other vehicles in the BRTS lane has strictly been baned. In this regard, he directed the officials to take strict action against those found to driving unauthorized vehicles on the BRTS lane. In the meeting, it was informed that services of 80 traffic wardens will be taken for running i-buses on the BRTS lane by chalking out a deployment plan for them. Before their deployment, a thorough training will be imparted to all the traffic wardens and conductors so as to enable them to shoulder responsibility dutifully.
Problems encountered during the dry run of i-buses on the BRTS land were also discussed. Collector also set a time frame to complete the remaining works of the BRTS including erection of the remaining iron grills on both sides of the BRTS lane, bus stops, etc. He asked the agencies concerned engaged in construction of bus stops to handover those bus stops which have been completed. He hoped that all the bus stops on the BRTS corridor would be handed over by April 26 this month. He also directed to start inspection of mobile court on the BRTS from Monday so as to ensure that there is no violation
of traffic rules on the
BRTS lane.