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Top cops take note of traffic woes
INSPECTOR GENERAL Police Vinay Kumar said haphazard parking and unabated encroachment of roads had added woes to this problem. He also stressed the need for creating awareness and cooperation among people to resolve this menace.
INSPECTOR GENERAL Police Vinay Kumar said haphazard parking and unabated encroachment of roads had added woes to this problem. He also stressed the need for creating awareness and cooperation among people to resolve this menace.
Attending the programme as chief guest here at Chetna crossing to strengthen the traffic system and to mark Traffic Manch, Kumar said that expansion of the city was continuing and road traffic further compounded the problem. He said despite best efforts widening of the roads could not take place which aggravated the traffic problem. He said both the people and common people were responsible for the problem.
He stressed the need for developing civic sense among the people and said co-ordination among various departments was necessary to ease the problem.
Delivering his views, Division Commissioner Dr Moolchand Yadav said people blamed the police for traffic problems but they should understand that their role too was important. He said police and administrative officers would be transferred to other districts but the residents would stay here permanently.
Dr Yadav, who is also chairman of the Gorakhpur Development Authority (GDA), said that in all the maps approved for the multi-storied building and shopping complexes, the owners marked certain a certain space for parking but when we tried to locate the site near hotels, we found that the ground reality was quite different.
Presiding over the programme, DIG BB Bakshi was hopeful that traffic bottleneck in the city could be resolved soon with the cooperation of people.
SSP Raja Srivastava said police officials were inviting suggestions of different field to resolve these problems. He hinted that the road widening process could be started in the city and the administration is in touch with the State Bank of India, the GDA to demolish the boundary and the bank and to utilise the road for widening.
