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Traffic cones damaged under wheels of vehicles within 10 days

AMRITSAR: Within 10 days of installation of traffic cones at traffic signals at many important intersections to demarcate slip roads to facilitate right hand turns, unruly drivers have broken many of these.

Traffic cones damaged under wheels of vehicles within 10 days

Within 10 days of installation of traffic cones at the SSSS chowk, unruly drivers have broken these cones in Amritsar on Thursday. Photo: Vishal Kumar



Manmeet Singh Gill

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 18

Within 10 days of installation of traffic cones at traffic signals at many important intersections to demarcate slip roads to facilitate right hand turns, unruly drivers have broken many of these.

The traffic cones made of plastic easily get damaged under the wheels and drivers trying to get ahead of each other or to hurriedly cross the traffic signal before it turns red often run their vehicles over these cones.

Though the traffic cops are available at most of these traffic intersections and few even have CCTV cameras, the damage caused to the public property seems unstoppable.

“Even if a vehicle runs over these cones in front of a traffic cop, he or she cannot run after the vehicles. At places, where CCTV cameras are available, the violators could be easily identified,” said Joginder Singh, a resident.

The residents complained that if 10 to 20 per cent of the cones have been run over merely in 10 days, it is not long that the entire money spent on these cones gets wasted.

“The protection of public property is the duty of the administration as well as the citizens. Whenever the citizens are lax in their duty, it becomes necessary for the government to intervene and take punitive action,” said another resident, Kashmir Singh.

The residents stated that while the administration had not yet finished the work of installing the cones, the damage caused to these raises questions about their safety.

A traffic police official, pleading anonymity, said, “The department does not have enough manpower to keep a watch over these cones day and night. Already due to lack of a traffic sense, the cops are finding it difficult to manage a smooth flow of traffic.”

He suggested that instead of installing plastic cones, the administration should have installed cemented or iron poles to ensure that they lasted longer.

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