Prayagraj: Work is underway on a new plan to improve the traffic system of Sangam City Prayagraj of UP. This plan was discussed in the recently held committee meeting of the Integrated Transit Management System of Prayagraj Smart City Limited (PSCL). The plan has been made in such a way that the traffic system remains better during the Kumbh days. The movement of vehicles should not be disrupted by the crowd. Officials said that this plan was discussed in the committee meeting of the Integrated Transit Management System of Prayagraj Smart City Limited (PSCL) held on November 7. Its minutes were confirmed on 21 November. Under the new scheme, the automatic facility of making traffic challan is being expanded to seven places. PSCL has installed Red Light Violation Detection System under Integrated Command and Control Center (ICCC) at 19 locations. Also, some roads have been made one-way with vehicle parking. To implement this system, care will be taken that there is no shortage of traffic police by SP (Traffic), Prayagraj. On the roads which are under construction and where work is in progress by the Public Works Department and Prayagraj Development Authority, the work of marking stop lines and zebra crossings will be done by the concerned departments. To avoid any kind of hindrance in issuing challan, PSCL will make stop lines and zebra crossings on the roads.
One-way traffic scheme with roadside parking
Officials were informed that the Urban Mobility Transport Company was employed as a consultant and besides designing the roads in the areas under the Area-Based Development (ABD) initiative, it has also given a one-way traffic scheme with roadside parking. . During this discussion, Additional DCP (Traffic) Sita Ram was shown a map, on which she suggested that she would investigate the matter keeping in mind the directions given by the Allahabad High Court. Will report to the committee for further action. ADCP (Traffic)-Prayagraj also suggested setting up a vehicle parking station near Old Government Girls Polytechnic. PSCL Mission Manager (Technical) Sanjeev Kumar Sinha said that an order under a PIL (No. 1299 of 2019) has already been passed by the High Court and Prayagraj Smart City Limited will take up the matter accordingly.
These roads will be one way, two-way vehicles will run on these roads.
Urban Mobility Transport Company, appointed as consultant, has recommended that Clive Road, Strachey Road, Cooper Road and Patrika Road (from Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg to MG Road and from MG Road to Nawab Yusuf Road) be allowed from the left with vehicle parking. It should be made one-way. Similarly, the firm recommended nine specific stretches of certain roads including Nyaya Road (from Nawab Yusuf Road to MG Marh and Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg to Maharishi Dayanand Road), Sarojini Road (from PD Tandon Road to Tashkent Road and Tashkent Road), Is of. up to Maharshi Dayanand Road) as well as four stretches of Lohia Road (from Nawab Yusuf Road to MG Road, from MG Road to Lal Bahadur Shastri Road, from Lal Bahadur Shastri Road to PD Tandon Road and from Kasturba Gandhi Road to Clive Road) two-way. Kept but there should be provision for parking on both sides of the roads.
These officers participated in the meeting
Other officials present in the meeting included PSCL CEO Chandra Mohan Garg, Prayagraj Development Authority Executive Engineer Sandeep Aggarwal, Prayagraj Municipal Corporation Executive Engineer Nazmi Muzaffar, Traffic Inspector, Traffic Police-Prayagraj Amit Kumar and PSCL Manager (IT) Mani Shankar Tripathi. Were.