KOLKATA: Commuters in the city are likely to get a New Year gift from Kolkata Police in the form of decongested roads and better traffic management.
The cops are working on a slew of initiatives - shorter waiting time at crossings, better automated traffic management through refurbished area traffic control (ATC) system, allowing right turns at many crossings, better pedestrian traffic management and extending the bus-bay system beyond the central business district area - to make hassle-free movement of traffic possible across the city.
On the basis of a detailed traffic volume studies at different crossings, traffic police are reducing the signal cycles from 180 seconds to 90 seconds and from 90 to 45 seconds. "Over the years, there has been a tremendous change in the nature of traffic. We are reducing the signal cycle on the basis of the traffic volume vis-a-vis our traffic management system. This will facilitate a faster dispersal of traffic from road intersections. Now people will have to wait less at crossings. Resultantly, their journey time will also be reduced substantially," said additional commissioner (II) Soumen Mitra.
If reduction of signal cycle is a very important step towards a free flow of traffic, then automated traffic management through the ATC is another stride ahead in the city's traffic management system. There were some technical snags in the ATC that was installed by Keltron. Those errors are likely to be rectified now. Under mega-city project, 95 crossings of central business district of the city would be under the purview of ATC.
"Strand Road in the west, AJC Bose Road in the south, AJC-APC Road in the east and Mahatma Gandhi Road in the north will be the circumference. All roads in between will be covered by this system," said a senior traffic police officer.
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