MC chief holds bus ride for officials to streamline traffic movement in city

Going the extra mile and taking an unique initiative to streamline traffic movement in the city, Municipal Corporation (MC) Commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal organised a bus ride for officials for taking stock of the situation at the ground level on Wednesday.

Traffic Adviser, Punjab, Navdeep Asija, and member, Punjab Road Safety Council, Rahul Verma, also accompanied the officials and made recommendations for junction improvement and reducing congestion in different parts of the city. The officials remained in the field for around two-and-a-half hours.

MC Additional Commissioner Paramdeep Singh, Joint Commissioner Abhishek Sharma, ACP (Traffic) Jatin Bansal, MC Assistant Commissioner Gurpal Singh, Superintending Engineers Ranjit Singh, Sham Lal Gupta, Sanjay Kanwar and Parveen Singla, MTP Vijay Kumar and ATPs, tehbazaari officials were among others present.

After holding a meeting with the officials at the MC’s Zone D office here, Dachalwal and other officials took a bus ride to around 18 sites across the city.

These points included Jagraon bridge, junctions near Kapoor Hospital and Durga Mata Mandir, Mata Rani Chowk, old sabzi mandi, Partap Chowk, Hambran Road, near Arya College, Lakkar Bridge, Deep Hospital road.

Some of the recommendations included increasing the road width near Kapoor Hospital by including the government land outside the PSPCL sub-station, redesigning of the Jagraon bridge junction, widening of the Jagraon bridge road leading to Vishwakarma Chowk, increasing the width of Durga Mata Mandir junction and junction near Deep Hospital, construction of slip road near Gulzar motors on old GT road, removal of encroachments from the old GT road and construction of a slip road near the old sabzi mandi.

The MC Commissioner said the aim of the visit was to check the situation at the ground level. Traffic police officials and civic body officials of different branches, including B&R Department, building branch and tehbazaari, were taken along so that all aspects could be checked. Traffic experts have submitted their recommendations and they would also be submitting designs for junction improvement, etc, in coming days. The civic body will work parallelly to reduce congestion and streamline the movement of traffic in the city.

Meanwhile, traffic experts and officials also appealed residents to follow traffic rules and support the authorities in improving the situation at the ground level.