Panel to redesign traffic police assistance booths
To provide adequate facilities to traffic police personnel, the UT Administration has decided to redesign the traffic assistance booths in the city. It has constituted a three-member committee for the purpose.
During the recent meeting of the District Road Safety Committee, the issue of construction of traffic assistance booths at major intersections in the city was raised. The representative of the Chief Engineer Office said the work had been completed at two places —the Matka Chowk and Sectors 3/4/9/10 chowk. However, the traffic police informed the committee that the exiting booths at the Matka Chowk did not have sufficient space and a washroom. They said staff, especially female employees, faced a lot of hardship at the booth.
The committee Chairman-cum-Deputy Commissioner, Nishant Kumar Yadav, asked the Chief Architect to redesign the traffic police booths. He constituted a committee comprising a senior architect, the Executive Engineer, Division No. 6, and the DSP Traffic (R&D).
The DC directed the committee to conduct a survey for the redesigning of these booths and submit an action taken report at the next meeting of the committee. A total of eight traffic police assistance booths are to be built in the city.
At the meeting, traffic police officials said a gap in the median on the Sukhna Choe bridge (stretch from the traffic light point at the back of Bapu Dham Colony towards the Shastri Nagar signal) had been temporarily plugged by placing portable barricades as the spot witnessed a high volume of traffic. However, commuters from local areas drive on the wrong side of the road and displace these portable barricades, to cross the road, putting theirs as well others’ lives at risk. A permanent solution was needed to prevent people from driving on the wrong side on this stretch.
The Chairman asked the representative of the Chief Engineer Office to look into the matter and provide some solution to eradicate this problem. The representative informed the meeting that a high-level bridge was proposed at the specific location and hiring a consultant was necessary for this proposal. The DC deferred the matter for three months.
Eight units to be built across city
The DC directed the committee to conduct a survey for the redesigning of these booths and submit an action taken report at the next meeting. A total of eight traffic police assistance booths are to be constructed across the city.
