Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
A delegation of members from the Institute of engineers on Thursday met special commissioner (traffic),M A Saleem offering technical support for traffic de-congestion.
The members held a hour long discussions and shared their technical ideas on creating traffic infrastructure to ease the flow,Mr.Saleem,said , referring to the meeting.
Elaborating on the plan, he said that the traffic police identified 10 major junctions which are presently problematic and need immediate attention.
Apart from this few more junctions are also added to the list to improve their condition.
The first in the list Hebbal junction has been redressed to ease the traffic flow through different strategies .
Banning goods vehicle during peak hour has reduced 30 per cent of the traffic problem and the travel time was brought down from 20 minutes to 7 minutes,the test carried by the traffic police before and after the traffic changes,he said .
This strategy would not work as it needs different plans for different junctions,he added .
Like in Goraguntepalya junction,which is topped second in the list,needed reduction of phases in traffic signals to ensure faster movement and free flow of outgoing traffic .
This needed to redesign the three phased signal to two phase,so that the waiting time at every junctions could be reduced .
Like wise the KR Puram junction some encroachment due to ongoing construction activities which will be cleared .
A free left turn road has been introduced at the silk board junction to avoid traffic pile up from Bommanahalli towards BTM Layout.
As far as other roads are concerned phasing out the signal lights from three phase to two phase will further reduce the travel time of the commuters on road in a big way .
Citing an example Mr. Saleem said that signal timing on the stretch of JC road from Minerva circle till town hall has been reduced to allow the traffic flow without break .
Thus the travel time on the road has further been reduced. In addition to this zero tolerance for haphazard parking on roads,footpath encroachment and jay walking has been monitored on regular basis to help the free flow of traffic .
With the technical support from institute of engineers , the traffic police added a fleet of 200 traffic wardens to the existing 600 members to manage the traffic at junction level .
This force will give some respite to the traffic policemen who can be redeployed for important pending work.
