With Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressing concern over deteriorating traffic system in the state capital, another high-level meeting was called by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi to take several measures in this regard.
Briefing media persons after the meeting held in Lok Bhawan here on Monday, Awasthi said that they again discussed how to streamline traffic on all the three national highways connecting with the state capital.
He said that instructions were given to ensure proper lighting and cleanliness on Lucknow-Kanpur, Lucknow-Barabanki and Lucknow-Sitapur national highways besides taking details of action taken so far since the last meeting about a week back.
The additional chief secretary said for smooth flow of traffic, the officials of the municipal corporation, district and police administration, National Highways Authority of India and the traffic police were jointly responsible and they must act accordingly.
He said that special squads would be deployed by the department concerned to prevent buses from being parked outside the bus stands of the UP State Road Transport Corporation in Lucknow, and action would be taken against the personnel if they found any violation of the rules.
In line with the instructions given in the earlier meeting, arrangement of two big cranes has also been made on Lucknow-Kanpur highway so that technically damaged vehicles and accidental vehicles could be shifted to other places soon. Instructions have been given to make available the information about the places of availability of these two cranes to all the officers concerned so that their early use could be ensured.
In relation to illegal encroachments on the three highways, Awasthi directed the district and police administrations to share the identified sites and the action taken regarding their removal. It was also directed that along with the notice for removal of encroachment, efforts must be made to communicate with the parties concerned by holding meetings.
Awasthi asked the officials to place adequate quantities of signs and marking boards, stickers etc. on national highways as per rules at the earliest, so that accidents could be prevented.
Instructions have also been given to put up boards on Shaheed Path regarding the speed limit of vehicles and the action to be taken on its violation.
Information was also given in the meeting about the steps taken to improve street lighting and cleanliness and patrolling.
It was informed in the meeting that street lights had been installed on Barabanki road from Kamta crossing to Matiyari, for which instructions had been given to the officials of the Energy Department to provide electricity connections at the earliest.
The action taken so far against the removal of illegal tempo stands was also reviewed in the meeting and instructions were given to make available the list of vehicles to the city development, police and district administration after determining the places for stand.
Additional Director General of Police (Traffic) was directed to ensure compliance of traffic rules through sensors using the technology of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).
Awasthi also directed officials to develop halting areas as per rules by taking land on lease or acquiring it for proper accommodation of trucks and other goods carriers.