Bengaluru: The city traffic police are planning to decongest the roads near schools and colleges, as the vehicles coming to drop and pick up students are found parked on roads for want of space.
Roads near most schools and colleges in the city witness heavy traffic congestion in the morning and evening as hundreds of vehicles arrive to drop or pick up students.
It was observed that people visiting commercial areas and offices also park their vehicles near educational institutions for long hours, thereby occupying the parking spaces meant for schools.
Traffic police are now planning to impose heavy penalty on owners of private vehicles parked near the institutions, according to a senior police officer.
He said, “The vehicles approaching the institutions will have to drop the wards or students or pick them up and leave immediately. Any other vehicle parked near the school for other purposes will be penalised. This move will help in decongesting the areas around the educational institutions.” “We are already experimenting this in Central Business District (CBD) areas and it is gradually proving effective. There will be more than four traffic police personnel at each of the school and colleges from their jurisdiction regulating traffic during the morning and afternoon hours,” the officer said.
Another official said that if this plan works out, the will be replicated across the city and this will help in free flow of traffic near the educational institutions.
“Even the schools and parents have welcomed the move. We will hold meetings with school managements asking them to inform their parents about it and we will also put up boards warning against parking of vehicles near schools and colleges. Illegally parked vehicles will be towed away and the owners will be penalised heavily,” he added.
