Joint efforts crucial to enforce rules

Open House: how to prevent traffic snarls on interior city roads?

Set up checkposts at city’s entry points

Heavy-duty vehicles continue to ply on city roads during no-entry hours despite a ban and it leads to traffic snarls. Such vehicles shouldn’t be allowed to enter the city from 8 am to 8 pm. Moreover, parking of these vehicles on main roads, streets, slip roads and flyovers is banned and for such vehicles, designated parking areas, including Transport Nagar, have been set up. Despite it, these heavy vehicles are parked illegally. Traffic laws are stringent, but these aren’t implemented in a proper way. Issuing challans to heavy-duty vehicles, which ply on city roads in the day and are parked without a business/receipt/truck operator’s receipt is need of the hour. The traffic police should set up checkposts and install display boards at the city’s entry points to divert the heavy-duty vehicles towards the outer ring roads of the city.

Simran Sidhu

Ban four-wheelers in main markets

Heavy vehicles cause traffic snarls in interior roads and main markets of the city. Besides, these also pose a risk of causing accidents. Despite city residents are facing problems, it seems that the authorities are not making any serious effort to discourage the movement of heavy vehicles in interior areas. These vehicles enter markets to unload materials. Being heavy vehicles, these cover the most part of roads, which becomes a hurdle in the smooth flow of traffic. Even in main Dhobi Bazaar, Sirki Bazaar, Bank Bazaar, Arya Samaj Chowk and Mall Road, the smooth flow of traffic is obstructed by four-wheelers. The rest of the space, if any, is occupied by shopkeepers where they park their own vehicles. The traffic police occasionally issue challans to wrongly parked vehicles or those parked out of the yellow lines, but shopkeepers and customers raise a hue and cry on it. As far as the entry of heavy vehicles in the city is concerned, these should be allowed to enter the markets only between 10 pm and 5 am to unload the material. The entry of four-wheelers should be strictly banned in the main markets to ensure free flow of traffic in the city. The MC authorities should create more parking lots for residents. Residents, shopkeepers, transporters and MC officials should join hands to find a workable solution to get rid of the issue.

NK Gosain

Multi-storey project should be completed

The laxity on the part of the traffic police causes a lot of inconvenience to residents. Heavy vehicles occupy main roads and markets in the city. In this situation, people find it difficult to walk. The traffic police should issue challans to the drivers of trucks or other heavy vehicles who bring their vehicles in the city. No heavy vehicle should be allowed to enter the city particularly in the interior part. The items of shopkeepers should be transported from Transport Nagar in small vehicles. Since Transport Nagar is situated on main Goniana Road, it can accommodate heavy vehicles. It will save residents from traffic snarls. Their presence in markets leads to accidents. No one should be allowed to park their vehicles out of the yellow line. There is an urgent need for more parking places in the city. The multi-storey parking project has been hanging in the balance for long. It should be immediately completed so that people may get suitable place to park their vehicles. But, heavy vehicles should not be allowed to enter the city under any circumstances at any time.

Pursharth Joshi

Deploy traffic cops in residential areas

Heavy vehicles and school vans obstruct the smooth flow of traffic on interior roads in the city. Trucks and canters affect traffic in residential areas. At times, these heavy vehicles get stuck while taking a turn. As a result, traffic snarls rule the roost in the area. The authorities concerned must deploy traffic cops in residential area to streamline traffic. They must issue challans to drivers of heavy vehicles entering the residential areas.

Monika Garg

Lack of strict action makes ban useless

Roads in the interior part of the city are congested and heavy vehicles create a hindrance to the movement of other vehicles. Due to jams, often ambulances ferrying patients find it difficult to negotiate their way through traffic. Though the administration has banned plying of trucks and other heavy vehicles on interior roads of the city, the absence of strict action against violators has made the ban useless.

Gagandeep Singh

QUESTION

As some Covid-19 cases have been reported in the state, do you think the Punjab Government and the district administration are doing enough to contain the spread of the disease? What more steps can be taken in this regard?

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