Dr G Parameshwar promises task force to regulate Bengaluru city traffic
Bengaluru: The Home Department will soon set up a Bengaluru Traffic Task Force to provide comprehensive solution to tackle the growing traffic problem in the city, State Home Minister G. Parameshwar said on Friday.
After a meeting with the senior traffic police officers at the Traffic Management Centre, Mr Parameshwar told reporters that a holistic approach is the need of the hour to manage the traffic effectively and the Task force would play an important role. Representatives of the civic agencies such as BBMP, BDA, BWSSB, BESCOM and members of the NGOs would be stakeholders, who would help devise a plan to manage the traffic better, he added.
Providing infrastructure to the city is one of the top priorities of the government. It has already sanctioned four elevated corridors across the city for the free flow of vehicles. But these are the long term plans and the department concerned had to manage with the short-term immediate solutions to manage the traffic effectively until the elevated corridors are completed, he said.
Apart from redesigning the bottlenecks to ban heavy vehicles entry into the city during peak hours by zonal restriction of vehicles and regulating habitual and repeat traffic offenders, would be some of the immediate steps that the traffic police department will need to look at, the minister said appealing to the people to cooperate with the police.
The city traffic police are also working to decongest the traffic by providing alternate routes and carpooling initiatives, but there is only little effect considering the population of vehicles in the city. With the highest number of vehicles , the amount of fine collected by the traffic police are also high, Mr Parameshwar said adding that since 2007 to this year the traffic police has collected Rs 419 crore as fines.
The home minister also appreciated the city traffic cops for using technology to its best by way of automation of imposing and collection of fines and also the involvement of the citizens into policing by the Public Eye app.
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