The faulty signal system in Noida has only aggravated traffic problems in the city. According to an assessment by Noida Traffic Police, over 35 per cent of Noida's traffic lights have not been functioning off late. It is not that authority is not aware of it, but the work to repair these faulty red lights is very slow and thus, leading to major traffic jam in the city, especially during peak hours.
At present, Noida has around 70 traffic signals including blinkers, out of which nearly 25 are not functioning properly. Around 15 of them are completely dysfunctional, while others have partial faults. Among the partially defective lights, either the secondary light is not working or the primary light, causing bounty of problems to the commuters.
Signals at Jhundpura, Swani Furniture, BSNl crossing, Mamura, Harola, Naya Bans, Metro Hospital, Sector 8, Sector 10, Sector 11, Sector 12, Sector 76, Sahara crossing, Sector 71, Sector 34 T-point, Goal-Chakkar, Sector 6 police chowki, Prakash Hospital and some others are fully out of order.
According to traffic police, as number of vehicles are increasing enormously these days, faulty signals have been aggravated the woes in smooth movement of vehicles at various key roads of the city. "With the sharp increase in vehicular volume, the need of the hour is to regulate smooth traffic system in the city. When the motorists notice fault in traffic lights, they stop following traffic rules, causing traffic snarls and increasing chances of road accidents. Hence, we have written to the Noida authority to repair all these signals, "said a senior official of traffic police.
RP Singh, a senior official of Noida authority, said that the authority is well concerned about this issue and have also ordered the company, which has been assigned to maintain signals across the city, to repair the defective lights before end of the week. "As we have got the responsibility to maintain signals from the law enforcement agency recently, we have been monitoring their condition so we could replace faulty signals before June this year. Temporarily, we have ordered to repair them for maintaining smooth flow of traffic.