Public outrage at new traffic plan has compelled the police to withhold this decision for a day or two. Vehicle users on Saturday evening had expressed their anguish over imposition of one way system at various places in the State capital.
Dehradun SP City Navneet Singh Bhullar said that new traffic plan was imposed for a trial at various roads between 6 pm and 8 pm on Saturday but due to some shortcomings in this plan, this traffic plan was not implemented on Sunday evening. After rectification in this new traffic plan, police will implement it soon.
By installing signboards at various places, road users will be informed about changed traffic routes at various roads in the city. Rectified traffic plan might be implemented on various roads in the State capital from Monday evening on trial mode for a week, he added. Vehicle users were witnessed arguing with police on Saturday about new plan imposed suddenly by police without informing the people about new traffic plans.
They were angry with the new traffic plan imposed in the state capital by the Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police Kewal Khurana on Saturday evening. According to them, without informing the public about new traffic plan, police started implementing it on roads. Doon residents said that they are already suffering from price rise of petrol
and reaching destination after covering few additional kilometres will put extra burden on them. Recently, DGP BS Sidhu faced traffic jam outside a prominent school on Subhash Road near the police HQ. The school management had claimed to have provided parking space to parents coming to pick their wards but their haphazardly parked vehicles on the roadside continued to cause congestion on this road.
Under traffic new plan which might to rectified, there will be no traffic movement from Astley Hall to Clock Tower. To reach Clock Tower, vehicle users will have to go through Kanak Chowk, lansdowne and Darshanlal Chowk. To reach Gandhi Park and MDDA Complex from Astley Hall, vehicle users will have to take the route from Astley Hall, to lansdowne Chowk, Darshanlal Chowk and Clock Tower to reach MDDA Complex and Gandhi park.