The overflow of traffic from neighbouring places, inappropriate user-behaviour, lack of enforcement of laws and badly designed roads and footpaths are some of the major issues needed to be considered to ease traffic in Delhi and National Capital Region, claim police officials and experts in a panel discussion held at FICCI on Saturday.
The discussion on the theme ‘Traffic Concerns in NCR’ was organised by FICCI ladies Organisation (FlO). It was attended by Special Commissioner of Police Traffic Mutesh Chander, Commissioner of Police (Gurgaon) Navdeep Singh Virk and SSP (Noida) Kiran S.
Muktesh Chander said there was a need for policy intervention and stricter enforcement of law. The New Motor Vehicle Act which is pending in Parliament could help in resolving the traffic issues as it prescribes severe punishments for violation of traffic rules.
Navdeep Singh Virk, said that the traffic police in Gurgaon faced a severe shortage of resources and the Government was forthcoming in trying to bridge this gap. However, to deal with traffic congestion at present, community has come up in a big way to help traffic police.
While Kiran S said that in the last 15 years Noida had become a hub for IT and call center industries, which led to at least six peak timings instead of the usual two peak hours during the day, and resulted in traffic congestion even at night.